{"id":355758,"date":"2011-04-01T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T06:43:14","slug":"mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ Family Offended by &#8216;A.I.&#8217; Pepsi Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/03\/31\/michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-american-idol-james-durbin-family-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\nTmz<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n UPDATE: Idol contestant James Durbin just tweeted, &#8220;For anyone talkin..I said pepsi NOT MJ! I have no disrespect for Michael. I grew up singing his art. <\/p>\n<p>I guess youll take it how you want it&#8230;&#8221; and then followed that up with, &#8220;Talkin about MJs passing is too soon. Making a reference to an incident 25 years ago..not too soon. The stab was at pepsi people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s family is offended by a comment made on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; last night by a contestant, who made light of MJ&#8217;s devastating injury that triggered years of drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Pepsi Moments<br \/>If you saw the show, James Durbin told Ryan Seacrest after his performance, &#8220;I have a lot of hairspray in my hair to keep it from jumping around &#8212; so much so, the one thing I was worried about was having a &#8216;Pepsi moment.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201104\/149606.php\" title=\"MJ Family Offended by 'A.I.' Pepsi Moment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MJ Family Offended by &#8216;A.I.&#8217; Pepsi Moment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tmz : \u00a0\u00a0 UPDATE: Idol contestant James Durbin just tweeted, &#8220;For anyone talkin..I said pepsi NOT MJ! I have no disrespect for Michael. I grew up singing his art. I guess youll take it how you want it&#8230;&#8221; and then followed that up with, &#8220;Talkin about MJs passing is too soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MJ Family Offended by &#039;A.I.&#039; Pepsi Moment - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"MJ Family Offended by &#039;A.I.&#039; Pepsi Moment - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Tmz : \u00a0\u00a0 UPDATE: Idol contestant James Durbin just tweeted, &quot;For anyone talkin..I said pepsi NOT MJ! I have no disrespect for Michael. I grew up singing his art. I guess youll take it how you want it...&quot; and then followed that up with, &quot;Talkin about MJs passing is too soon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"MJ Family Offended by &#8216;A.I.&#8217; Pepsi Moment\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-01T06:43:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/\"},\"wordCount\":164,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif\",\"articleSection\":[\"Business\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/\",\"name\":\"MJ Family Offended by 'A.I.' Pepsi Moment - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-01T06:43:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"MJ Family Offended by 'A.I.' Pepsi Moment - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"MJ Family Offended by 'A.I.' Pepsi Moment - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Tmz : \u00a0\u00a0 UPDATE: Idol contestant James Durbin just tweeted, \"For anyone talkin..I said pepsi NOT MJ! I have no disrespect for Michael. I grew up singing his art. I guess youll take it how you want it...\" and then followed that up with, \"Talkin about MJs passing is too soon","twitter_image":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"MJ Family Offended by &#8216;A.I.&#8217; Pepsi Moment","datePublished":"2011-04-01T06:43:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/"},"wordCount":164,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif","articleSection":["Business"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/","name":"MJ Family Offended by 'A.I.' Pepsi Moment - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif","datePublished":"2011-04-01T06:43:14+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/mj-family-offended-by-a-i-pepsi-moment\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_3-150x90.gif"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}