{"id":485,"date":"2005-07-25T21:25:45-04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T02:25:45+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/25\/i-dont-like-idol"},"modified":"2005-07-25T21:25:45-04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T02:25:45+00:00","slug":"i-dont-like-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/i-dont-like-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t like&nbsp;Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Despite my best efforts to avoid the program in every respect, in the last few days I&#8217;ve had two unrelated Canadian Idol experiences:<\/p>\r\n<p>First, a guy named Shane opened at El Mocambo on Thursday night; apparently he was a finalist on the show a while ago, and his cadre of middle-aged female screamers were out in full force.  He&#8217;s got a reasonable voice, I&#8217;ll grant that, but reeked of the lounge-lizard banter and vocal stylings that typify the program for me.<\/p>\r\n<p>Second, this evening I received e-mail on one of my dormant accounts soliciting votes for a current contestant so she won&#8217;t be bumped from the show this week, complete with a logoed wallpaper image so I can be advertised at all day from my very own computer screen.  Thanks, but no thanks.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite my best efforts to avoid the program in every respect, in the last few days I&#8217;ve had two unrelated Canadian Idol experiences: First, a guy named Shane opened at El Mocambo on Thursday night; apparently he was a finalist on the show a while ago, and his cadre of middle-aged female screamers were out&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}