{"id":1884,"date":"2010-04-25T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/25\/boomer-folkies-get-their-snipe-on\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:47:00","slug":"boomer-folkies-get-their-snipe-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/25\/boomer-folkies-get-their-snipe-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomer folkies get their snipe on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, baby boomers could just chuckle in disinterested glee at the insipid character assassination practiced by GenNext musicians, actors and people who are simply famous for being famous.<\/p>\n<p>And, really, why not? Paris Hilton calling Lindsey Lohan a hack is not terribly (or any other kind of) interesting.<\/p>\n<p>But now, now we have this:<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/music\/la-et-jonimitchell-20100422,0,5684541.story?page=2\">an interview with the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, Joni Mitchell belly flopped into the same kind of curdled vat of egotitistical insult by calling Bob Dylan &#8220;fake:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob is not authentic at all. He&#8217;s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know, you&#8217;re saying, &#8220;But Joni changed her name, too. She was born Roberta Joan Anderson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quite right. She addressed this too: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for my name, my parents wanted a boy, so they called me Robert John; when I came out a girl, they just added two letter A&#8217;s to that. Then I married Chuck Mitchell; I wanted to keep my maiden name \u2014 I had a bit of a following as Joni Anderson \u2014 but he wouldn&#8217;t let me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon people now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, baby boomers could just chuckle in disinterested glee at the insipid character assassination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}