{"id":1423,"date":"2007-03-14T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:45:52","slug":"american-idol-down-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"American Idol Down to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Tonight the <strong>American Idol<\/strong> <strong>12<\/strong> will become <strong>11<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Before I say who I think will be going home, let me compliment<strong> <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">Chris Sligh<\/span><\/strong>. Not only can the young man sing, but he did <strong>exactly<\/strong> what the judges have been encouraging the contestants to do&#8230; and then got slammed for doing it. <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Week in and week out, we hear the judges say, &#8220;<strong>make the song your own<\/strong>&#8230; <strong>don&#8217;t be an imitator<\/strong>&#8230; <strong>show your personality<\/strong>.&#8221; It was <strong>Diana Ross week<\/strong> and <strong>Chris<\/strong> took took <strong>&#8220;Endless Love&#8221;<\/strong> and modernized it. Was it as catchy as the original version? No, but then again we&#8217;ve heard the original for over <strong>20 years<\/strong>. It&#8217;s engrained in our memory banks so no new version will initially sound as good. Still, <strong>Chris<\/strong> took the <strong>judges&#8217; advice<\/strong> to heart and made the song his own and he sounded really good in doing it. So it ticked me off to hear the judges slam him when it was their suggestions that led him down that path. <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Sanjaya Malakar<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> should be the next contestant to leave [and <strong><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">Brandon Rogers<\/span><\/strong> needs to kick it up a few notches or he&#8217;ll soon be on the bubble], but my guess is it will be <\/span><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Haley Scarnato<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. <strong>Haley<\/strong> forgot her words and appeared to be really nervous. Still, I felt it was one of her better performances and hope that she gets another chance to prove herself. Unfortunately I think that <strong>Sanjaya<\/strong> has a teeny-bopper fan base that will keep him around for another week. <\/span><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the American Idol 12 will become 11. Before I say who I think will be going home, let me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25554,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/25554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}