{"id":522,"date":"2010-07-19T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/?p=522"},"modified":"2010-07-19T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:52:08","slug":"mj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2010\/07\/mj\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My son has discovered the beauty of Michael Jackson\u2019s voice.\u00a0 Granted, it\u2019s been over a week of T-chan listening continuously to an extended DJ mix of MJ\u2019s music that my husband had downloaded whenever we were driving about in the car.<\/p>\n

Yet, finally, a few nights ago, when the car had stopped, but the music played on, he crawled up to the front seat frantically with a huge grin and he placed his ear near the front speakers. He first looked at me and then at Dad, full of joy, and then he began to sing along:<\/p>\n

I wanna, wanna be where you are<\/em>, oh, oh<\/h2>\n
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Anywhere you are, oh, oh<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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I wanna, wanna be where you are<\/em>, oh, oh<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Soon enough, we were all singing. What is it about Michael\u2019s voice that connects with people, that helps us transcend the everyday? Is it the clarity, the passion, the purity, the deeper resonance–all of it?<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t really matter. We were all singing very loudly and it felt like we, as a team of three, or actually of 4 (including MJ), that we were one powerful, unstoppable wave of positive energy.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MFL_gYXE6Rk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My son has discovered the beauty of Michael Jackson\u2019s voice.\u00a0 Granted, it\u2019s been over a week of T-chan listening continuously to an extended DJ mix of MJ\u2019s music that my husband had downloaded whenever we were driving about in the car. Yet, finally, a few nights ago, when the car had stopped, but the music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2791,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordinary-miracles","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}