{"id":8791,"date":"2016-03-06T21:49:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/06\/madonna-the-ray-of-light-cover-story-madonna-chooses-dare\/"},"modified":"2016-03-06T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T21:49:12","slug":"madonna-the-ray-of-light-cover-story-madonna-chooses-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/06\/madonna-the-ray-of-light-cover-story-madonna-chooses-dare\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna: The &#039;Ray of Light&#039; Cover Story, &#039;Madonna Chooses Dare&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Madonna: The &#39;Ray of Light&#39; Cover Story, &#39;Madonna Chooses Dare&#39;<\/strong><br \/>\nSo the only real option for the sole &#39;80s icon still thriving in the &#39;90s was to make the kind of record she puts on her boom box \u2014 a blend of haunted singer\/songwriter introspection and beat-savvy electronic exotica that may not play in Topeka, if U2 &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/2016\/03\/madonna-ray-of-light-cover-story-1998\/\">SPIN (blog)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Songwriters<\/b> Hall of Fame to Induct Tom Petty, Marvin Gaye, Elvis Costello<\/strong><br \/>\nHe sings a clutch of songs, including &quot;25 or 6 to 4&quot; and &quot;Ben,&quot; popularized by a young Michael Jackson. &quot;This show is nothing like a Broadway show,&quot; he said. &quot;It&#39;s funny and a lot of Broadway shows are dead serious.&quot; That he would end up in show &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/6897278\/songwriters-hall-of-fame-2016-tom-petty-marvin-gaye-elvis-costello\">Billboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna: The &#39;Ray of Light&#39; Cover Story, &#39;Madonna Chooses Dare&#39; So the only real option for the sole &#39;80s icon still thriving in the &#39;90s [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1613,1611,1614,172,1615,1612,1610,1424],"class_list":["post-8791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-michael-jackson","tag-39madonna","tag-39ray","tag-chooses","tag-cover","tag-dare39","tag-light39","tag-madonna","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}