{"id":3187,"date":"2009-01-29T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/a-cher-essay\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:40:07","slug":"a-cher-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2009\/01\/a-cher-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cher Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;Someone wrote an essay defending Cher! <a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2009\/01\/27\/arts\/music\/\">http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2009\/01\/27\/arts\/music\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would be SO excited about this literary event except that it\u2019s so bad. The worst quote I can cull from it would be that the song Half Breed was about: <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>\u201cthe challenges she faced growing up as a half-Cherokee, half-Caucasian woman.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The author also states that Cher would be a phenomenal commencement speaker which was really hard for me to picture (because that would be a bit of a boring existence for Cher \u2013 doing the Bill Cosby at uuniversities and colleges); although I agree she would have good life-experience to impart and two of the speeches&#0160;I&#39;ve heard from her (Sonny\u2019s eulogy and her Academy Award acceptance speech, for example) have been good. 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