{"id":5049,"date":"2009-09-04T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2009-09-09T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:09:17","slug":"jay-z-and-i-stare-each-other-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5049","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z and I Stare Each Other Down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5050\" title=\"dsc00912b\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dsc00912b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00912b\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dsc00912b-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dsc00912b-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s the hardest? In the above photograph by BET exec Stephen Hill, rapper\/entrepreneur Jay-Z, right, and I take a break from our semi-annual lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkrestaurants.com\/sequoia.html\"  target=\"_blank\">New York City&#8217;s Sequoia restaurant<\/a> to reenact a dramatic scene from the 1981 sci-fi horror film, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scanners\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Scanners<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To watch him make my head explode, tune in to Black Entertainment Television, next week, <strong>Thurday (9\/10) evening<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">night\/Friday morning<\/span>, <strong>at<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">midnight<\/span> <strong>7 pm<\/strong>, and check out <em>Food for Thought: Conversations with Jay-Z<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There, for a whole hour, Hot 97 NY on-air personality Angie Martinez, sportswriter Stephen A. Smith, and I will take turns ice-grilling America&#8217;s most wanted emcee about his music, business, and philosophy. Make sure you peep it. I think it&#8217;ll blow your mind, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s the hardest? In the above photograph by BET exec Stephen Hill, rapper\/entrepreneur Jay-Z, right, and I take a break from our semi-annual lunch at New York City&#8217;s Sequoia restaurant to reenact a dramatic scene from the 1981 sci-fi horror film, Scanners. To watch him make my head explode, tune in to Black Entertainment Television, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,51,10,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}