{"id":17533,"date":"2009-07-10T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/07\/10\/the-world-reaction-to-the-unexpected-death-of-michael-jackson-extends-to-young-children\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:00:01","slug":"the-world-reaction-to-the-unexpected-death-of-michael-jackson-extends-to-young-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090710-01\/?p=17533","title":{"rendered":"The world reaction to the unexpected death of Michael Jackson extends to young children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to meet up with the same family whose two-year-old was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/06\/29\/9807827.aspx\"> learning to lie<\/a> in an earlier story. It was only a day or two after the death of Michael Jackson, and the older sister (five years old) told me, &#8220;Did you know? Michael Jackson, he went to sleep and he is never going to wake up.&#8221;\n Her younger sister (now three), corrected her.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;No, he&#8217;s dead!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to meet up with the same family whose two-year-old was learning to lie in an earlier story. It was only a day or two after the death of Michael Jackson, and the older sister (five years old) told me, &#8220;Did you know? Michael Jackson, he went to sleep and he is never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-17533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I had occasion to meet up with the same family whose two-year-old was learning to lie in an earlier story. It was only a day or two after the death of Michael Jackson, and the older sister (five years old) told me, &#8220;Did you know? Michael Jackson, he went to sleep and he is never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}