{"id":99,"date":"2002-08-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jake.home.bookerdog.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2002-08-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T03:00:00","slug":"whats-the-moral-here-say-it-with-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/2002\/08\/whats-the-moral-here-say-it-with-me-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the moral here? Say it with me now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness that Nikki finally got the boot over on <i>American Idol<\/i>.  I was beginning to worry that those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/News\/Items\/0,1,10405,00.html\">phone phreaks<\/a> were playing a cruel joke on us and were conspiring to make Nikki the ultimate winner.  Yuck.<\/p>\n<p>So why do I, a self-professed rock fan(Really?  Where?), hate the &#8220;rocker&#8221; of <i>American Idol<\/i>?  Because while she is marginally more credible because of her rock fandom, her voice is not good.  Not at all.  <\/p>\n<p>So, then I think Kelly should win, right?  Well, no, not really.  I mean, yeah, she can sing the heck out of a Mariah Carey cover of a freaking Badfinger song, but she&#8217;s just a voice.  Is that what American music is all about?  These days, I suppose you could make a good case that, yes, this is what American music is about.<\/p>\n<p>However, I can totally dig Justin.  Even his respect for Michael Jackson.  I mean, the man was the King of Pop.  I know that I had a poster of him on my wall in the third grade (even though the song &#8220;Thriller&#8221; scared the bejesus out of me.  Creepy Vincent Price.).  I love that he has a little soul.  I hate that the judges thought that an Elton John song was the perfect number for him.  I know, I know, Elton used to have a little credibility too.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my.  Did I really just write that much about a television show?  Forgive me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness that Nikki finally got the boot over on American Idol. I was beginning to worry that those phone phreaks were playing a cruel joke on us and were conspiring to make Nikki the ultimate winner. Yuck. So why do I, a self-professed rock fan(Really? Where?), hate the &#8220;rocker&#8221; of American Idol? Because while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/2002\/08\/whats-the-moral-here-say-it-with-me-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s the moral here? Say it with me now&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11xKg-1B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}