{"id":15188,"date":"2003-03-04T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/jacko-doesnt-like-spabooks\/"},"modified":"2003-03-04T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T17:50:00","slug":"jacko-doesnt-like-spabooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/jacko-doesnt-like-spabooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacko Doesn&#8217;t Like Spabooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Michael Jackson\" border=\"0\" src=\"blogicons\/michaeljackson_white.jpg\" \/>Just when you thought Michael Jackson couldn&rsquo;t sound any crazier, somebody finds something else to surprise you.  CNN reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/03\/04\/leisure.jackson.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">an upcoming <i>Vanity Fair<\/i> article that reveals some pretty weird stuff<\/a>, even for him:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jackson bleaches his skin white because he does not like being black&hellip; [and] refers to black people as &ldquo;spabooks&rdquo;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>[Jackson] wears a page-boy wig and a prosthesis that serves as the tip of his nose&hellip;[W]ithout the device Jackson resembles a mummy with two nostril holes&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>[I]n 2000 Jackson attended a voodoo ritual in Switzerland where a witch doctor promised that Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and 23 other people on the entertainer&rsquo;s list of enemies would die.  Jackson, who underwent a &ldquo;blood bath&rdquo; as part of the ritual, then ordered his former business adviser Myung-Ho Lee to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba, who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was starting to feel some sympathy for him after that ABC TV special did a chop job on him, but if even some of the things said about him are true then he&rsquo;s gone off the deep end some time ago.  I&rsquo;d like to think that some of these stories are exaggerations, but with Michael, nothing surprises me anymore&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90405579?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought Michael Jackson couldn&rsquo;t sound any crazier, somebody finds something else to surprise you. CNN reports on an upcoming Vanity Fair article that reveals some pretty weird stuff, even for him: Jackson bleaches his skin white because he does not like being black&hellip; [and] refers to black people as &ldquo;spabooks&rdquo;&hellip; [Jackson] wears &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/jacko-doesnt-like-spabooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jacko Doesn&#8217;t Like Spabooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}