{"id":303791,"date":"2010-02-10T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92665"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:55:32","slug":"john-mayer-%e2%80%9csorry%e2%80%9d-for-using-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303791","title":{"rendered":"John Mayer \u201cSorry\u201d For Using Racial Slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mayer has apologized for using a racial slur in a new interview with <em>Playboy Magazine<\/em>, which hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/articles\/john-mayer-playboy-interview\/index.html?page=2\">magazine\u2019s website<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rocker posted a series of messages on his Twitter page after the article&#8217;s release revealed his use of the &#8220;N word&#8221; &#8212; and various other bizarre remarks about race and his anatomy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/John-Mayer-Sorry.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"John Mayer Sorry\" width=\"413\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-92666\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRe: using the \u2018N word\u2019 in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word,\u201d<\/em> Mayer <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohncMAyer\">Tweeted<\/a>. <em>\u201cAnd it\u2019s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there\u2019s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged&#8230;&#8230;I should have never said the word and I will never say it again.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who does he think he&#8217;s talking to? A bunch of assholes? If this interview hadn&#8217;t gotten out, he&#8217;d still be using the word and he wouldn&#8217;t be serving up an apologies for it. Racially-insensitive people are so 1963! (<em>Officially deleting &#8220;Clarity&#8221; from my iPod&#8230;.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/td-TaMsSvywt_xuXJ8pRpl4jux0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/td-TaMsSvywt_xuXJ8pRpl4jux0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/td-TaMsSvywt_xuXJ8pRpl4jux0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/td-TaMsSvywt_xuXJ8pRpl4jux0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mayer has apologized for using a racial slur in a new interview with Playboy Magazine, which hit the magazine\u2019s website Wednesday. The rocker posted a series of messages on his Twitter page after the article&#8217;s release revealed his use of the &#8220;N word&#8221; &#8212; and various other bizarre remarks about race and his anatomy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}