{"id":497,"date":"2007-05-16T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/1179363370727.html"},"modified":"2007-05-16T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T00:56:10","slug":"blogentry-american-idol-may-16-2007-who-got-kicked-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] American Idol May 16, 2007 : Who Got Kicked Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, can there be any shockers when there&#039;s only 3 people left?  I&#039;d like to say I predicted this, but I can&#039;t find any links to back it up.  Melinda is eliminated this week, putting Blake and Jordin in the finals.  I&#039;m not really all that surprised.  Melinda is a classic case of peaking early and becoming such a favorite that people just get bored with her consistency.  Look at Blake over the last few weeks, and all the crazy risks he&#039;s been taking to bring the beatboxing back into his performances.  Does that make him a better singer than Melinda?  No, not even close. But it makes people interested in him.  He got their attention.  The same with Jordin.  Every season there is a 17yr old with a stellar voice.  None of them make it this far.  She was positioned by the producers as the threat to Melinda, and that worked for her.<\/p>\n<p\/>I expect Jordin to win the whole thing.  I&#039;m not really into it this year, there&#039;s no Taylor or Daughtry that is singing the kind of music I&#039;d actually listen to.  <\/p>\n<p><script type=&#034;text\/javascript&#034;><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = &#034;pub-4716552313955049&#034;;\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = &#034;728x90_as&#034;;\ngoogle_ad_type = &#034;text_image&#034;;\ngoogle_ad_channel =&#034;1714283069&#034;;\ngoogle_color_border = [&#034;336699&#034;,&#034;000000&#034;,&#034;B4D0DC&#034;];\ngoogle_color_bg = [&#034;FFFFFF&#034;,&#034;F0F0F0&#034;,&#034;ECF8FF&#034;];\ngoogle_color_link = [&#034;0000FF&#034;,&#034;0000FF&#034;,&#034;0000CC&#034;];\ngoogle_color_url = &#034;008000&#034;;\ngoogle_color_text = [&#034;000000&#034;,&#034;000000&#034;,&#034;6F6F6F&#034;];\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=&#034;text\/javascript&#034;\n  src=&#034;http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js&#034;>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p\/><b><a href=&#034;.\/search.action?query=american+idol&#034;>More American Idol stories&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p\/>Technorati: <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/american+idol&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>American Idol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, can there be any shockers when there&#039;s only 3 people left? I&#039;d like to say I predicted this, but I can&#039;t find any links to back it up. Melinda is eliminated this week, putting Blake and Jordin in the finals. I&#039;m not really all that surprised. Melinda is a classic case of peaking early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}