{"id":524,"date":"2005-02-16T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T11:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=524"},"modified":"2005-02-16T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T11:29:23","slug":"american-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"American Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were watching the second round of the latest American Idol last night. By the end, I noticed that I could count the number of singers who actually tried to sing a <i>melody<\/i> on my thumbs - maybe on just one thumb. Everyone else produced overwrought outbursts of yodeling and pointless <a href=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encnet\/features\/dictionary\/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861629145\">melisma<\/a>. I felt like grabbing each of them and shouting \"pick a fucking <b>note<\/b> ! Carry a tune ! \" <\/p>\n<p>Is a loathing of popular culture part of growing old?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were watching the second round of the latest American Idol last night. By the end, I noticed that I could count the number of singers who actually tried to sing a melody on my thumbs - maybe on just one thumb. Everyone else produced overwrought outbursts of yodeling and pointless melisma. I felt like [&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-524","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\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}