{"id":5191,"date":"2009-08-05T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2009-08-05T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T18:43:55","slug":"there-was-a-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5191","title":{"rendered":"There Was A Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when you could count on <em>Shot In The Dark<\/em> to react to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/uberblog\/b137736_paula_abdul_ive_decided_not_return_idol.html?utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\">this sort of &#8220;news&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0with incompetently-concealed ennui.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never cared for AmIdol much; if overwrought, over-ornamented Mariah Carey knockoffs were money, America would have no deficit already.\u00a0 But for Kelly Clarkson, Jordin Sparks and Chris Daughtry, I doubt I could pick out a single winner, much less contestant.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the news that Paula Abdullah has left the show means something.\u00a0 Before, I&#8217;d have yawned&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With sadness in my heart, I&#8217;ve decided not to return to #IDOL. I&#8217;ll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all&#8230;being a part of a show that I helped from day1 become an international phenomenon,&#8221; read two tweets posted shortly after 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fox confirmed the news shortly afterward<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;but now, with the addition of Bogus Doug &#8211; perhaps America&#8217;s foremost Idologist &#8211; <em>Shot In The Dark <\/em>leaps to the forefront of AmIdol coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Which is good, because I was wondering who the cute valley girl was, sitting with the gay british guy and the guy who replaced Ross Valory in Journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when you could count on Shot In The Dark to react to this sort of &#8220;news&#8221;\u00a0with incompetently-concealed ennui.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never cared for AmIdol much; if overwrought, over-ornamented Mariah Carey knockoffs were money, America would have no deficit already.\u00a0 But for Kelly Clarkson, Jordin Sparks and Chris Daughtry, I doubt I could pick out a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}