{"id":129,"date":"2003-01-07T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=129"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:26:39","slug":"grammy-nominations-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Nominations Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--87072105-->So, here goes my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammys.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Grammy Nominations<\/b><\/a> rant. This actually boils down to all award shows, in my opinion. It always seems like the top selling, most popular, &#8220;in your face&#8221; all year people get the attention come awards time. As an example: You honestly can&#8217;t tell me that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avril-lavigne.com\/indexframes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Avril Lavigne<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkspage.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Pink<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britneyspears.com\/home\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Britney Spears<\/b><\/a> are ones that should be up for &#8220;Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.&#8221; It&#8217;s just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abeautifulmind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>&#8220;A Beautiful Mind&#8221;<\/b><\/a> at last year&#8217;s Oscars. Hello?!? Just because the masses like it does not mean that it is good. Burn your Britney and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmusic.com\/microsites\/justin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Justin<\/b><\/a> cds people. Go and see something other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesbond.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>&#8220;Die Another Day.&#8221;<\/b><\/a> You&#8217;ll be better off for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here goes my Grammy Nominations rant. This actually boils down to all award shows, in my opinion. It always seems like the top selling, most popular, &#8220;in your face&#8221; all year people get the attention come awards time. As an example: You honestly can&#8217;t tell me that Avril Lavigne, Pink and Britney Spears are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-25","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10933,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/10933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}