{"id":201,"date":"2006-11-25T22:43:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2006\/11\/25\/coolest-figure-in-rock\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T06:47:41","slug":"coolest-figure-in-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/coolest-figure-in-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Coolest Figure in Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"beth.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/beth.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image200\" height=\"96\" alt=\"beth.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/beth.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beth Ditto, a self-described fat lesbian feminist from Arkansas, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,11069-2464811,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">just<\/a> been&nbsp;\u00a0named by NME as the coolest person in Rock. She is the lead singer in a band called The Gossip, and her voice has been compared to Janis Joplin and Etta James.<\/p>\n<p>After I got over my first and second reactions, I listened to a song on the band&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/Gossipband\" target=\"_blank\">myspace <\/a>page. I don&#8217;t know about Coolest, but she&#8217;s pretty&nbsp;\u00a0damn cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;\u00a0 Beth Ditto, a self-described fat lesbian feminist from Arkansas, has just been&nbsp;\u00a0named by NME as the coolest person in Rock. She is the lead singer in a band called The Gossip, and her voice has been compared to Janis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/coolest-figure-in-rock\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[12,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-3f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}