{"id":1054,"date":"2006-05-26T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2006-05-26T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T19:26:09","slug":"katharine-mcphee-i-came-in-second-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Katharine McPhee: ''I came in second for a reason''"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course you did, honey. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/report\/0,6115,1197944_3||266575_0_,00.html\">Of course you did.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this was what amused me most:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<b>Q: Did you ask producers to hook you up with a Meat Loaf duet?<\/b><br \/>\nKatherine: They just came to me. It wasn't like it was my choice. They just said, Okay, you'll be singing with so-and-so.<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: I haven't heard the guy in a while.<\/b><br \/>\nI didn't even know who he was. But now I do. He was like really big in the '70s, right?<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: Well, and more recently than that. You must know ''Paradise by the Dashboard Light,'' right?<\/b><br \/>\nI don't.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shit, I couldn't get away from that stupid Meat Loaf album from the time it came out, all the way through college. Everybody loved it but me, it seemed. It was a Friday night staple on my dorm room floor: Meat Loaf's \"Bat Out Of Hell\", Fleetwood Mac's \"Rumors\", the Violent Femmes first, and Molson Golden. It was such a joy when some people with more adventerous taste in music moved in, and started playing the Pixies and Fugazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course you did, honey. Of course you did. But this was what amused me most: Q: Did you ask producers to hook you up with a Meat Loaf duet? Katherine: They just came to me. It wasn't like it was my choice. They just said, Okay, you'll be singing with so-and-so. Q: I haven't [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}