{"id":153,"date":"2002-07-15T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2002-07-15T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/golden-arches-not-golden-showers\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T00:20:25","slug":"golden-arches-not-golden-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/golden-arches-not-golden-showers\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLDEN ARCHES, NOT GOLDEN SHOWERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>TRUE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/images\/paperlink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"left\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/top\/1,1419,L-LATimes-Search-X!ArticleDetail-65787,00.html\"><strong>Producer&#8217;s Porn Ties Said to Derail Jackson&#8217;s Song<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nstory \u00a9 July 12, 2002, <em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Michael Jackson charity single to benefit victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was abandoned by the pop star&#8217;s advisors after they discovered that the song&#8217;s executive producer had ties to the gay pornography business, according to documents obtained Thursday by <em>The Times<\/em> and sources close to the charity effort. The pulling of the single came after McDonald&#8217;s Corp. backed out of a multimillion-dollar agreement to sell the single in its restaurants, said sources involved in the deal.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>SEMITRUE:<\/strong><\/em> Standing next to a statue of Ronald McDonald, the corporate mascot of the fast-food chain, a spokesperson for McDonald&#8217;s attempted to belie the rumors, pointing out that &#8220;our company has always supported pasty-faced clowns&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUE: Producer&#8217;s Porn Ties Said to Derail Jackson&#8217;s Song story \u00a9 July 12, 2002, The Los Angeles Times A Michael Jackson charity single to benefit victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was abandoned by the pop star&#8217;s advisors after they discovered that the song&#8217;s executive producer had ties to the gay pornography business, according [&hellip;]<\/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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truesemitrue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}