{"id":2519,"date":"2008-05-23T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2008-05-23T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T13:19:07","slug":"cougars-4-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Cougars 4 Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24782698\/\">this<\/a> is a little creepy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Linda Sharp, smitten as a schoolgirl, voted 473 times for Cook after Tuesday\u2019s final performance show. The 42-year-old married mom used her land-line and cell phone \u2014 as well as her three daughters\u2019 cell phones \u2014 to show support for the singer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest thing: He\u2019s legal, and that goes a long way,\u201d said Sharp, who\u2019s from Austin, Texas. \u201cHe\u2019s 25. That\u2019s old enough that we can openly ogle him, and we can drool over him, and it doesn\u2019t make us feel like we could be his mother.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reverse the genders in this scenario and then ask yourself if this story would've been published at all, or what the reaction would be if it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or is this is a little creepy: Linda Sharp, smitten as a schoolgirl, voted 473 times for Cook after Tuesday\u2019s final performance show. The 42-year-old married mom used her land-line and cell phone \u2014 as well as her three daughters\u2019 cell phones \u2014 to show support for the singer. \u201cThe biggest [&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-2519","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\/2519","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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}