{"id":538,"date":"2007-04-30T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/04\/30\/1177953342484.html"},"modified":"2007-04-30T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T17:15:42","slug":"blogentry-american-idol-for-my-lady-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] American Idol : For My Lady Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Sherman Pore?  He was the 60-something who auditioned for American Idol in memory of his &#034;lady love&#034;, Melissa, who had passed away from ovarian cancer just days before the auditions began.  He came bearing a petition to help him get past the age restrictions.  He didn&#039;t make it to the show, of course, but he did get a chance to sing on national television and tell his story.<\/p>\n<p\/>Well, he&#039;s going to get a little more than that.  He&#039;s just finished his CD, entitled appropriately enough <a href=&#034;http:\/\/top40-charts.com\/news.php?nid=32422\n&#034;>For My Lady Love<\/a>, a collection of classic love songs.  Part of the proceeds will go to City of Hope&#039;s program for cancer research.  Good for him.  The man&#039;s a class act all the way.  Even in the interviews he&#039;s still saying, &#034;My appearance on &#039;American Idol,&#039; this album, and all the money it will raise for City of Hope to fight cancer &#8211; these are all Melissa&#039;s accomplishments.&#034;&#034;<\/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>Remember Sherman Pore? He was the 60-something who auditioned for American Idol in memory of his &#034;lady love&#034;, Melissa, who had passed away from ovarian cancer just days before the auditions began. He came bearing a petition to help him get past the age restrictions. He didn&#039;t make it to the show, of course, but [&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-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}