{"id":297,"date":"2003-09-15T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=297"},"modified":"2003-09-15T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T20:08:11","slug":"canadian-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Canadian idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> wasn&#8217;t planning to mention this, but since it&#8217;s on Canadian TV repeatedly, the final for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/generic\/WebSpecials\/Shows\/CanadianIdol\/default.html\">Canadian Idol<\/a> will be on tonight. I&#8217;ll be the first one to say that I haven&#8217;t followed the complete show, basically because I&#8217;m not interested in these kind of media events.\n<\/p>\n<p>I did notice that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald.ns.ca\/stories\/2003\/09\/15\/f170.raw.html\">Nova Scotian guy<\/a> has entered the finals and he seems to have a good chance winning the show too.  Naturally, there&#8217;s a frenzy going on in Nova Scotia. If I remember correctly, the city of Halifax issued a couple of billboards showing their support. And ATV (the local broadcaster) has invited everyone to a place somewhere to watch, see, sing and celebrate the whole event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t planning to mention this, but since it&#8217;s on Canadian TV repeatedly, the final for Canadian Idol will be on tonight. I&#8217;ll be the first one to say that I haven&#8217;t followed the complete show, basically because I&#8217;m not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=297\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}