{"id":105,"date":"2007-02-01T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=105"},"modified":"2007-02-01T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:45:32","slug":"idol-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/idol-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Idol update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple more hours lost to Idol this week; it was a good escape, but it certainly wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t thrilling this week.\u00c2\u00a0 The only clear favorite, in my mind, was the guy who had sung as a back-up singer for Christina Aguilera.\u00c2\u00a0 No one else had fabulous talent (though I suspect they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re withholding the clips of the talented people until \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hollywood week\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).<\/p>\n<p>But how heartbreaking was the sixty-four year old guy who sang for his recently departed lady love?\u00c2\u00a0 That one got to me (many kleenex used), though I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really understand his motivation for auditioning.\u00c2\u00a0 What mattered was that his emotion was true, and his voice was sweet and heartfelt.<\/p>\n<p>And since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m multi-tasking right now:<\/p>\n<p>JUST announced on the Today show:\u00c2\u00a0 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released at midnight on July 21, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>And Al Franken will run for Senate.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enough pop culture for one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple more hours lost to Idol this week; it was a good escape, but it certainly wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t thrilling this week.\u00c2\u00a0 The only clear favorite, in my mind, was the guy who had sung as a back-up singer for Christina Aguilera.\u00c2\u00a0 No one else had fabulous talent (though I suspect they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re withholding the clips of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/idol-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Idol update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}