{"id":1775,"date":"2008-04-01T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2017-02-23T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:02:56","slug":"billie-jean-by-any-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean by Any Name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/R_KClu62s6I\/AAAAAAAABIU\/VC3H_Xb4XFs\/s1600-h\/z040108amer_idol.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184349705818518434\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/R_KClu62s6I\/AAAAAAAABIU\/VC3H_Xb4XFs\/s400\/z040108amer_idol.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">One of the reasons that I enjoy watching <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">American Idol<\/span> is that occasionally one of the contestants will present a new version of a song that really works. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><del><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Chris Daughtry&#8217;s &#8220;Walk the Line&#8221;<\/span><\/del> and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ZBPO4t0MyTM&amp;feature=related\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Blake Lewis&#8217; &#8220;Time of the Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a> are two examples. [Yeah, I know that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Daughtry&#8217;s take<\/span> was based on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Live&#8217;s cover <\/span>of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Johnny Cash<\/span> classic.] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Recently <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">David Cook<\/span> took a shot <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><del><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;<\/span><\/del>. It was amazing. I was knocked out by <\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><del><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">David&#8217;s Cook&#8217;s &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;<\/span><\/del>. It was bold, innovative and actually <\/span><a style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=c2MgwAJrfXo\">Chris Cornell&#8217;s &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;.<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> Shades of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Daughtry<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons that I enjoy watching American Idol is that occasionally one of the contestants will present a<\/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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","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\/1775","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=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17417,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/17417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}