{"id":2408,"date":"2010-05-28T00:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2010-05-28T00:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:31:28","slug":"american-idol-crystal-bowersox-lee-dewyze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/05\/28\/american-idol-crystal-bowersox-lee-dewyze\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>American Idol&#8217;s<\/em> Problem &#8230; Crystallized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <em>American Idol <\/em>season has come to a close and, once again, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/05\/14\/american-idol-finalists\/\">wrong contestant<\/a> won. Yes, the nervous guy, Lee DeWyze is the new American Idol, <strike>besting<\/strike> beating out the far superior singer, Crystal Bowersox.  I&#8217;m disappointed, but not surprised.  Why am I not surprised? I explain in my latest two-verse limerick:<\/p>\n<p><em>American Idol&#8217;s<\/em> Problem &#8230; Crystallized<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p><em>American Idol<\/em> is done,<br \/>\nAnd sadly, the weaker guy won.<br \/>\nThe Bowersox voice<br \/>\nWas a far better choice.<br \/>\nCrystal&#8217;s vocals sure hit a home run.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what has made me quite vexed:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the power of youngsters who text.<br \/>\nThey have time on their hands<br \/>\nTo be diligent fans<br \/>\nAnd decide who will win the crown next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another American Idol season has come to a close and, once again, the wrong contestant won. Yes, the nervous guy, Lee DeWyze is the new American Idol, besting beating out the far superior singer, Crystal Bowersox. I&#8217;m disappointed, but not surprised. Why am I not surprised? I explain in my latest two-verse limerick: American Idol&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,50,42,43,24,71],"tags":[299,1333,1331,1334,311,1330,1263,319,960,1329,961,320,323,1332],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-humor","category-entertainment-humor","category-limericks","category-media-humor","category-music-humor","category-television-tv-humor","tag-american-idol","tag-contestants","tag-crystal-bowersox","tag-fans","tag-fox-tv-humor","tag-lee-dewyze","tag-music-humor-verse","tag-music-limerick","tag-simon-cowell","tag-singing-voice","tag-talent-contests","tag-television-review","tag-texting","tag-youngsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}