{"id":671,"date":"2009-06-25T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-dies.html"},"modified":"2009-06-25T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:46:11","slug":"michael-jackson-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Dies After Possible Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The King of Pop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/25\/michael.jackson\/index.html\">Michael Jackson is Dead<\/a>,&nbsp; after going into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/854\/story\/1114122.html\">cardiac arrest<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jackson\">Michael Jackson<\/a>, like him or hate him, might be the biggest icon of Generation X. Ever. Everybody dies, even <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/comments_blog\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-rushed-hospital-feared-dead.html\">Michael Jackson dies<\/a>. Death is real, it comes without warning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/story\/0,28383,25692805-7484,00.html\">Michael Jackson&#8217;s heart attack<\/a> means his body is now a corpse. Strange enough when anyone dies. Stranger still, when a king dies. This is how I prefer to remember him:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/michaeljackson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michaeljackson.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/michaeljackson-thumb-500x335-6012.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"335\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King of Pop, Michael Jackson is Dead,&nbsp; after going into cardiac arrest. Michael Jackson, like him or hate him, might be the biggest icon of Generation X. Ever. Everybody dies, even Michael Jackson dies. Death is real, it comes without warning, Michael Jackson&#8217;s heart attack means his body is now a corpse. Strange enough&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media","category-everybody-hurts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Jackson Dies After Possible Heart Attack - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-dies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Jackson Dies After Possible Heart Attack - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The King of Pop, Michael Jackson is Dead,&nbsp; after going into cardiac arrest. 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