{"id":416,"date":"2009-05-21T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-05-21T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:20:26","slug":"not-to-brag-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/not-to-brag-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Not to brag, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I totally called it.\u00c2\u00a0 Totally.\u00c2\u00a0 Kris Allen won last night, just like I&#8217;ve been predicting for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 An excellent outcome for both Adam and Kris &#8211; a year from now, they&#8217;ll both be doing very well, and I can guarantee that Adam&#8217;s first CD will definitely be living in our house.<\/p>\n<p>And the finale last night was pretty good &#8211; no great surprises like last year (George Michael) and the year before (Prince), but still a lot of Jim&#8217;s and my favorites: Queen, Rod Stewart, Kiss (or should it be KISS?), Jason Mraz&#8230;it was a pleasant way to spend an evening.\u00c2\u00a0 And now I have my Tuesday and Wednesday nights back to spend reading, something I haven&#8217;t done much of since Idol started back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I totally called it.\u00c2\u00a0 Totally.\u00c2\u00a0 Kris Allen won last night, just like I&#8217;ve been predicting for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 An excellent outcome for both Adam and Kris &#8211; a year from now, they&#8217;ll both be doing very well, and I can guarantee that Adam&#8217;s first CD will definitely be living in our house. And the finale &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/not-to-brag-but\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not to brag, but&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}