{"id":2261,"date":"2019-05-14T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2019-05-14T18:11:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:11:36","slug":"meeting-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2019\/05\/14\/meeting-kanye-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Kanye West."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Imagine getting the opportunity to meet your favourite celebrity. That\u2019s not it, how about getting a picture together, having a conversation, and seeing unreleased music. Crazy right? At least that\u2019s what my sister Zeinab Najm thought as she was about to meet Kanye West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It was October 24, 2015, when she got invited to Kim Kardashian\u2019s birthday party. She got to see Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, North West, and Kris Jenner all in person. Followed by 2 other times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 When she arrived at the airport in Los Angeles, California she was so excited to go to sleep, wake up, and see Kim in the morning. As she walked in the hall she was shocked to see Kanye West, and North West standing in front of her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe took me, and my group of friends who run the Kanye fan account with me out to his car. He showed us some music he didn\u2019t release at the time, we took pictures and had a conversation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat was one of the most exciting days in my life\u201d I mean who wouldn\u2019t be excited meeting their favourite celebrity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0On May 23, 2018, she met Kanye in person for the second time, in Jackson, Wyoming. \u201cKanye invited me, and some other fans to his album listening party\u201d He played some music for them all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In Chicago on September 16, 2018, \u201cas I was walking around, I walked past Kanye West\u2019s hotel. I saw him walking out of it. So I took a picture with him.\u201d \u201cOnce a Kanye song came on the radio, I really liked it. I started listening to him. Later on, I and some other fans made a fan account. Look where that got us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My sister has been to a total of 4 Kanye West concerts and enjoys them every time. Remember, this all started with making a simple fan account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Written By Hiba Reda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Imagine getting the opportunity to meet your favourite celebrity. That\u2019s not it, how about getting a picture together, having a conversation, and seeing unreleased music. Crazy right? At least that\u2019s what my sister Zeinab Najm thought as she was about to meet Kanye West. It was October 24, 2015, when she got invited to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2019\/05\/14\/meeting-kanye-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}