{"id":922,"date":"2022-10-07T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=922"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:19","slug":"imitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/07\/imitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/weird-al.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924\"\/><figcaption>The Amish Gangsta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">It is said the imitation is the best form of flattery. We mourn Coolio&#8217;s passing at this unexpected age. A hard life and genetics could have been factors. What kind of legacy will he leave? He was none too happy when Weird Al encroached on the late rappers turf.<br><br>You can read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2022\/09\/coolio-rapper-dead-gangstas-paradise-fantastic-voyage.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab\">Coolio <\/a> and his rise to the top. He was a playa and shaka&#8230; Snoop is still Dogging it along. Snoop and Martha Stewart should run for office in 2024.  Right NOW? The focus is on the 2022 mid-terms.<br><br>I am part of this history in the making&#8230;. VOTE ~~~~  GREGORY MAXWELL<br><br>Blessings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said the imitation is the best form of flattery. We mourn Coolio&#8217;s passing at this unexpected age. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coolio.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}