{"id":11,"date":"2006-12-07T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T00:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2006\/12\/07\/i-heart-bono-u2\/"},"modified":"2006-12-17T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T21:44:12","slug":"i-heart-bono-u2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2006\/12\/i-heart-bono-u2\/","title":{"rendered":"I (heart) Bono. U2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bono,<\/p>\n<p>I have forgiven a lot over the years.\u00c2  The iPod commericial. The Rattle-n-Hum documentary.\u00c2 The perpetual soapbox. The entire Zooropa album. I even forgave you for marrying your childhood sweetheart, Ali, instead of waiting for a quirky, freckled-faced sixth grader from Chicago to come of age.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m not sure I can forgive the selection process behind the band&#8217;s latest album, U218. How does\u00c2 &#8220;Sweetest Thing&#8221; make it before &#8220;All I Want Is You&#8221; ?\u00c2  And, really, \u00c2 &#8220;Mysterious Ways&#8221; before &#8220;Bad&#8221;? They boyish lads on the CD cover suggest it&#8217;ll contain music from the early years, yet there&#8217;s not much to be found. (Rememeber &#8220;Boy?&#8221; I do.)<\/p>\n<p>You and the other three guys are still the coolest things to ever come out of north Dublin. I&#8217;m just not sure I need to plunk down $20 to remind you of that fact.<\/p>\n<p>This time you&#8217;ll have to make it on your own.<\/p>\n<p>Nellie<\/p>\n<p>ps Seriously, &#8220;Mysterious Ways&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bono, I have forgiven a lot over the years.\u00c2 The iPod commericial. The Rattle-n-Hum documentary.\u00c2 The perpetual soapbox. The entire Zooropa album. I even forgave you for marrying your childhood sweetheart, Ali, instead of waiting for a quirky, freckled-faced sixth grader from Chicago to come of age. However, I&#8217;m not sure I can forgive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}