{"id":318,"date":"2008-11-22T00:49:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=318"},"modified":"2008-11-22T00:49:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T07:49:36","slug":"afronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2008\/afronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"Afronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miss E. So Addictive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/shared\/media\/images\/amg_covers\/200\/dre900\/e956\/e95632hspzg.jpg\" title=\"Miss E. So Addictive\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"197\" \/><br \/>\nLast summer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\">Slate<\/a> had a nice piece about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2193871\/pagenum\/all\/\">&#8220;Afronaut Invasion.&#8221;<\/a> I.e. hip-hop music that was obsessed with outer space and sci-fi stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta say, that the more electro and spacey crazy aspects of hip-hop are certainly my favorites. The first hip-hop album I really loved was Missy Elliott&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miss_E%E2%80%A6_So_Addictive\"><i>Miss E&#8230; So Addictive<\/i><\/a> (which I also think is her &#8220;gay&#8221; album).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer Slate had a nice piece about the &#8220;Afronaut Invasion.&#8221; I.e. hip-hop music that was obsessed with outer space and sci-fi stuff. I gotta say, that the more electro and spacey crazy aspects of hip-hop are certainly my favorites. The first hip-hop album I really loved was Missy Elliott&#8217;s Miss E&#8230; So Addictive (which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2008\/afronauts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afronauts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,25,7],"tags":[93,90,91,92,94],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}