{"id":999,"date":"2003-03-15T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-15T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=999"},"modified":"2021-05-27T01:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T05:41:38","slug":"sound-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/03\/15\/sound-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/musicbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Guess what, Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s niece Waffa Bin Laden wants to be a pop star. The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/cbbcnews\/hi\/music\/newsid_2852000\/2852863.stm\">BBC<\/a> reports the London resident, 26, has been recording demos and hopes to sign a contract soon &#8212; although, admittedly, she \u201cis worried her surname might be off-putting to some\u201d. Her album, tentatively titled <i>Death to America<\/i>, will be released on cassette, one song at a time every six or seven months.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; At this time, President Bush has not yet declared war on her.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; In other audio news, check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/audio\/coagula.wav\">Message from Space<\/a> <small>(431 KB)<\/small>. (You can read about decoding the message <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualizationsoftware.com\/gram\/gramdl.html\">here<\/a>.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Guess what, Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s niece Waffa Bin Laden wants to be a pop star. The BBC reports the London resident, 26, has been recording demos and hopes to sign a contract soon &#8212; although, admittedly, she \u201cis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/03\/15\/sound-off\/\">Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,8,29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-music","category-news","category-space","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}