{"id":1812,"date":"2014-03-03T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:04:32","slug":"hero-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/thought-about\/hero-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand the draw of celebrity. I have never wanted to meet someone famous because they&#8217;re famous. They&#8217;re just people like me who happen to have public jobs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>If only Bradley&#39;s arm was longer. Best photo ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23oscars&amp;src=hash\">#oscars<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/C9U5NOtGap\">pic.twitter.com\/C9U5NOtGap<\/a>&mdash; Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEllenShow\/statuses\/440322224407314432\">March 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The closest thing I would have to a celebrity hero is Trent Reznor. His music has been the soundtrack to my life for two decades. I have seen Nine Inch Nails play live six times and How to Destroy Angela once.<\/p>\n<p>But if I were to meet Trent in a cafe what would I say to him? Would I even interrupt his day? I may go up to him very briefly and say thank you. Perhaps as he was leaving.<\/p>\n<p>But he doesn&#8217;t need me to bother him. He&#8217;s a guy who makes music. He writes songs. He plays concerts. He writes soundtracks. He&#8217;s a guy who writes music a lot of people listen to and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>What right does that give me to interrupt his life? I don&#8217;t care about him as a person. I don&#8217;t need to talk to him. I don&#8217;t have a connection with him. We are not friends.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a guy. Doing a job. That a lot of people get to watch him do.<\/p>\n<p>This extends to professional athletes, actors, authors and musicians. They do great work. But I don&#8217;t need to meet them or be in their life at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand the draw of celebrity. I have never wanted to meet someone famous because they&#8217;re famous. They&#8217;re just people like me who happen to have public jobs. If only Bradley&#39;s arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com\/C9U5NOtGap&mdash; Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014 The closest thing I would have to a celebrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post: Hero Worship","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105],"tags":[556,555,553,554],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thought-about","tag-celebrity","tag-fame","tag-hero","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}