{"id":3270,"date":"2008-12-22T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2008-12-22T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:17:44","slug":"sincerely-faking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Sincerely faking it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">In a recent interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/ben-folds-on-his-new-album-way-to.html\">on the Sound of Young America<\/a>, Ben Folds said:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I&#8217;m not so sure that I <i>want<\/i> it to be clear whether I&#8217;m being biographical or not. And that, in theory, would arrest people&#8217;s attentions a little bit to wonder whether it&#8217;s autobiographical &#8212; because people are interested in that, and they&#8217;re interested in reality shows&#8230;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Americans are. The English are aware that, as I always use as an example, that David Bowie didn&#8217;t go to Mars. But over here, Bruce Springsteen, if he says he&#8217;s done something, he better have that credibility.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview on the Sound of Young America, Ben Folds said: I&#8217;m not so sure that I want it to be clear whether I&#8217;m being biographical or not. And that, in theory, would arrest people&#8217;s attentions a little bit to wonder whether it&#8217;s autobiographical &#8212; because people are interested in that, and they&#8217;re &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3270\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,9],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-music","tag-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}