{"id":302,"date":"2003-09-17T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=302"},"modified":"2003-09-17T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T11:49:50","slug":"your-canadian-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Your Canadian idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>C<\/span>anadian Idol, naturally, smashed Canadian records. The 2 hour <strike>sitcom<\/strike> show will probably make into  today&#8217;s <em>hot<\/em> topic of the day, most likely replacing regular number one topic, the nation&#8217;s weather (Calgary = snow!, Ontario = Isabel).\n<\/p>\n<p>The Globe has probably one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.ca\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20030916.widol0916_2\/BNStory\/Front\/\">most dry commentaries on the show<\/a>, carefully suggesting that the two hour long show could have been cut into a 15 minute sing-along-and-vote-now event.\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Other flashback segments included host Ben Mulroney and sidekick Jon Dore singing the Idol anthem Choose Me alongside early-round Idol rejects. Some of the off-notes would have shattered glass.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Last evening brought you plenty of winners!  There&#8217;s a new Idol, Canadian, plus most importantly: an extremely happy record industry, eager to raise those profit margins after bad-bad-bad pirates, software programmers and dancing-boy-groups tried to ruin the market. Vive l&#8217;Idol!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Idol, naturally, smashed Canadian records. The 2 hour sitcom show will probably make into today&#8217;s hot topic of the day, most likely replacing regular number one topic, the nation&#8217;s weather (Calgary = snow!, Ontario = Isabel). The Globe has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=302\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}