{"id":1844,"date":"2009-10-17T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2009-10-17T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T15:48:02","slug":"guilty-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/guilty-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure we all have them, those things we like that if the world at large knew, would laugh or worse. I suppose, I have to admit that I am more guilty than most on both counts. I have a great deal of guilty pleasures, which alone would not really be an issue. However, I go ahead and publish them for the online world to read and poke fun at me (made possibe to an even greater extent since 2007 when I joined Facebook). Our greatest collective guilty pleasure must be music. Most of us keep them quiet, those solo drives in the car, where no-one will find out that you were listening to that appalling song by that appalling band. However, as you know by now, I am not one to shy away from admit these socially awkward things.<\/p>\n<p>Kamaljit Singh Jhooti, you may know him by his stage name &#8211; Jay Sean. He had mediocre success in his homeland, the UK. Then heading over to the US and signed to Ca$hMoney Records, the same label as Lil&#8217; Wayne. The first release on his new label was a song called Down. I did not expect much to be honest but the song is ultimately an extremely catchy radio friendly pop with a great rap from his label mate. (Coincidently, Nicki Minaj is also signed to the same label.)\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oUbpGmR1-QM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The reality is, his parents (being Asian) would probably still preferred him to have become a doctor! &#8220;Son, honestly why did you give up your medical course after the first year? Update: Almost three years later the big surprise would be that my sister, Natalie would get married at the very <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hedsor_house\" title=\"Hedsor House\">venue<\/a> of part of this video shoot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure we all have them, those things we like that if the world at large knew, would laugh or worse. I suppose, I have to admit that I am more guilty than most on both counts. I have a great deal of guilty pleasures, which alone would not really be an issue. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}