{"id":679,"date":"2009-06-30T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/rick-astley-dead-no-weve-been-rick-rolled.html"},"modified":"2009-06-30T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:48:22","slug":"rick-astley-dead-no-weve-been-rick-rolled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/rick-astley-dead-no-weve-been-rick-rolled.html","title":{"rendered":"Rick Astley Dead? No, We’ve Been Rick-Rolled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumors of Rick Astley’s Death<\/a> are false, ladies and gentlemen. In fact, supposedly today has seen massive internet rumors of the deaths of George Clooney<\/a>, Britney Spears<\/a>, and others. Apparently Britney Spear’s fake death<\/a> was due to a hacked twitter account.<\/a> I wish I was cool enough to have my twitter account<\/a> hacked.<\/p>\n

So, I know it’s fun to spread rumors and all, but it isn’t exactly right speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"rick_astley_dead.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

A reminder to all the hackers and rumor spreaders:<\/p>\n

Death is real.
It comes without warning.
This body will be a corpse.<\/p>\n

Stop Rick-Rolling us! Impermanence does the job plenty. <\/p>\n

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