{"id":203,"date":"2008-04-03T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T12:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-04-03T08:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T12:10:43","slug":"american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/american-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, it&#8217;s true &#8211; I do still watch <em>American Idol<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not.\u00c2\u00a0 And this season has been pretty great so far.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m blown away by the number of talented singers this year, and by the fact that there aren&#8217;t any singers who make you cringe and shake your fist at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hard pressed to make any predictions of who might win, since the contest truly seems to be a week-to-week thing, but I will list my personal favorites &#8211; the contestants who I&#8217;d like to see continue on to the end:\u00c2\u00a0 Michael, David A., David C., Carly, and Brooke.\u00c2\u00a0 So if those guys can hang on to the final five, I&#8217;ll be psyched.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;ve got to stop writing, since George Clooney is due up on the <em>Today <\/em>show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, it&#8217;s true &#8211; I do still watch American Idol.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not.\u00c2\u00a0 And this season has been pretty great so far.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m blown away by the number of talented singers this year, and by the fact that there aren&#8217;t any singers who make you cringe and shake your fist at the screen. I&#8217;m hard pressed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/american-idol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Idol<\/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":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-spare-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}