{"id":1106,"date":"2009-03-06T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2009-03-06T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T04:46:00","slug":"mia-says-stick-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/mia-says-stick-it\/","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. Says, &quot;Stick It!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked rapper M.I.A. and now I like her more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/news\/mia-i-didnt-name-my-baby-ickett-200963\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 290px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SbH8idlufkI\/AAAAAAAAHVs\/KPctLpfgXC0\/s320\/STORY_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310303104635141698\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">M.I.A. at the Grammys last month, days before giving birth<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been all over the interwebs that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/uberblog\/b103135_latest_boggling_celeb_baby_name_mias.html\" target=\"_blank\">she named her baby boy<\/a>, born February 11, &#8220;Ickitt.&#8221; Naturally, this created an opportunity for every Tom, Dick and <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/say-my-name-say-my-name.html\" target=\"_blank\">Erie Lackawanna<\/a> to drone on about terrible celebrity baby names. But M.I.A. posted this amusing message on her MySpace blog, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlisted.com\/taxonomy\/term\/199?page=1\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Kanye West-style capital letters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;MY BABY IS NOT CALLED ICKITT, PICKIT OR LICKIT THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL THE HOLLYWOOD PRESS. HES A BABY , HE DONT NEED PRESS!<\/p>\n<p>I DIDNT RELEASE THE BABY NAME BECAUSE I DIDNT THINK IT WAS NEWS!!!!<\/p>\n<p>BUT I WILL BE BACK WITH SOMETHING NEWS WORTHY SOON , TILL THEN GO PICK ON  APPLE, SATCHEL AND MOON UNIT.<\/p>\n<p>LOTS OF LOVE STICKIT!!&#8221;                 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of names, gorgeous blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sololisa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa<\/a>, remembering my <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/say-my-name-say-my-name.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent complaint<\/a> about a dearth of Wendy tributes, sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090306.wlnames0306\/BNStory\/lifeMain\/home\" target=\"_blank\">a story<\/a> that introduced me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendy.com\/wendyweb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Wide Wendy<\/a>. But I think I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Society<\/a> even better. Do you think the Freds would accept an honorary member? <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked rapper M.I.A. and now I like her more. M.I.A. at the Grammys last month, days before giving birth It&#8217;s been all over the interwebs that she named her baby boy, born February 11, &#8220;Ickitt.&#8221; Naturally, this created an opportunity for every Tom, Dick and Erie Lackawanna to drone on about terrible celebrity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/mia-says-stick-it\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blogs-and-bloggers","category-celebrities","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}