{"id":13330,"date":"2011-01-29T19:13:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T00:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/13330\/explain-me-understand\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:13:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T00:13:32","slug":"explain-me-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/13330\/explain-me-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"explain it to me, MAYBE I&#8217;ll understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: small\">Millions of Americans watch American Idol every week&#8230;ok no big deal I suppose&#8230;I don&#8217;t have to watch it to hear bad singing&#8211;every open mic\/karaoke show I go to has plenty of that&#8230;I don&#8217;t hear very many exceptional singers on the show, which I&#8217;ve only watched once, YEARS ago&#8230;Kelly Clarkson being one of the\u00a0exceptions&#8230;and I&#8217;m well aware that the right &#8220;knob twiddler&#8221; can work wonders in a recording studio&#8230;and I\u00a0DO personally know one or two amazing singers, but mostly what I hear (in MY neighborhood) is mediocre at best&#8230;what I don&#8217;t understand is why ANY rival network would cover what goes on on &#8220;AI&#8221; as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">news<\/span>&#8230;Are FOX and CNN corporationally connected? I don&#8217;t think so&#8230;Is FOX paying CNN under the table? Take SUM DUM GUY, or whatever the f**k his name is\/was&#8230;Was singing horribly some comedic shtick? SHE\u00a0 BANGS but he sucks&#8230;And NO, I&#8217;m not jealous of these talentless goobers&#8230;I know I&#8217;m good, but I&#8217;m not exceptional&#8230;and besides I&#8217;ve got the perfect face for radio&#8230;as tired of Gabrielle Giffords as we might be, I wanna know how she&#8217;s doing&#8230;I couldn&#8217;t care less about the contestants OR the judges on American Idol&#8230;and what I said when it started\u00a0MIGHT still apply&#8211;how can three people who can&#8217;t sing judge a singing contest? Before you say &#8220;But Jeniffer Lopez&#8230;&#8221; all I&#8217;ve ever heard were songs on the radio and that don&#8217;t mean sh*t to me&#8230;Bring her to my house, sit her down on the couch, I&#8217;ll get my guitar out&#8230;no machinery&#8230;THEN I&#8217;ll know if she can sing or not&#8230;ultimately none of this matters, but how and\/or why it is\u00a0NEWS is a mystery to me&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans watch American Idol every week&#8230;ok no big deal I suppose&#8230;I don&#8217;t have to watch it to hear bad singing&#8211;every open mic\/karaoke show I go to has plenty of that&#8230;I don&#8217;t hear very many exceptional singers on the show, which I&#8217;ve only watched once, YEARS ago&#8230;Kelly Clarkson being one of the\u00a0exceptions&#8230;and I&#8217;m well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}