{"id":771,"date":"2015-03-02T01:38:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=771"},"modified":"2015-03-02T01:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:38:52","slug":"madonna-takes-a-tumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/madonna-takes-a-tumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Takes a Tumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, onto the wardrobe malfunction heard &#8217;round the world &#8211; <strong>Madonna <\/strong>flying backwards and landing on her ass.\u00a0 At the <strong><em>Brit Awards<\/em><\/strong>, Madonna was singing &#8220;Living For Love&#8221;, which started with her standing backwards on the top of a staircase in a very long <em>Armani <\/em>cape.\u00a0 She was supposed to untie the cape, the dancers were supposed to pull it away, and she would be revealed in&#8230;.well, some kind of bullfighters outfit.\u00a0\u00a0 But in a moment that was either unfortunate or hilarious (depending on your perspective), the timing was off.\u00a0 While initially the dancers were blamed for pulling the cape too soon, that isn&#8217;t what happened.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told from people who were in the rehearsal room, Madonna was very clear about what she wanted and kept screaming, &#8220;Pull the cape harder and faster &#8211; I want it to be a dramatic moment!&#8221;\u00a0 Well, it certainly was that!\u00a0 She later blamed the people who dressed her: &#8220;Everyone was worried my cape would slide off, so they tied it really tight around my neck.\u00a0 I got to the top of the stairs and I pulled the silky string, and it wouldn&#8217;t come undone.\u00a0 I had two choices: I could either be strangled or fall.\u00a0 And I chose to fall.&#8221;\u00a0 Leave it to Madge to once again make the wrong choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, onto the wardrobe malfunction heard &#8217;round the world &#8211; Madonna flying backwards and landing on her ass.\u00a0 At the Brit Awards, Madonna was singing &#8220;Living For Love&#8221;, which started with her standing backwards on the top of a staircase in a very long Armani cape.\u00a0 She was supposed to untie the cape, the dancers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}