{"id":83,"date":"2009-06-26T06:26:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T06:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-07-09T03:56:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:56:28","slug":"the-king-of-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/2009\/06\/the-king-of-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/06\/25\/arts\/0625-jackson-graphic.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jackson-billboard.gif\" alt=\"Michael Jackson&#039;s Billboard Rankings\" title=\"jackson-billboard\" width=\"450\" height=\"231\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jackson-billboard.gif 450w, https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jackson-billboard-300x154.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After learning that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital after a possible heart attack, we scrambled to find a smart way to show the breadth of Michael Jackson&#8217;s career. Billboard&#8217;s archive of charts showing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/bbcom\/esearch\/searchResult.jsp?exp=y&#038;Ntt=michael+jackson&#038;Ntk=Keyword&#038;an=bbcom&#038;nor=10&#038;Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&#038;N=37+4294126188&#038;Ns=FORMATTED_DATE|0\">Hot 100 Rankings for Michael Jackson<\/a> seemed to be just the way to go. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/06\/25\/arts\/0625-jackson-graphic.html\">looking back<\/a> at his #1 hits \u2014 Billie Jean, Beat It, Black or White, among others (tho, suprisingly, Thriller never reach #1 as a single) \u2014 and also how his career compared, on the charts at least, with other artists like The Beatles and U2. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/06\/25\/arts\/jackson-legacy.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jackson-legacy.gif\" alt=\"jackson-legacy\" title=\"jackson-legacy\" width=\"450\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jackson-legacy.gif 450w, https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jackson-legacy-300x218.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Tom Jackson \u2014 assisted by John McGrath and Andrew Kueneman \u2014 took a project that had been in the works for a while to show reader feedback, in the form of reader comments and photos, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/06\/25\/arts\/jackson-legacy.html\">an entirely new way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After learning that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital after a possible heart attack, we scrambled to find a smart way to show the breadth of Michael Jackson&#8217;s career. Billboard&#8217;s archive of charts showing the Hot 100 Rankings for Michael Jackson seemed to be just the way to go. It&#8217;s fascinating both looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericson.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}