{"id":5389,"date":"2009-09-10T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2009-09-10T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:55:11","slug":"whew-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"Whew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I hired &#8220;Bogus&#8221; Doug Williams as executive managing editor at <em>Shot In The Dark <\/em>was that I could be assured <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090910\/ap_on_en_tv\/us_tv_american_idol_degeneres\">we cover stories like this<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fans took to the Internet after Wednesday&#8217;s announcement to express either pleasant surprise or total shock that DeGeneres was picked to replace <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252577014_3\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; cursor: hand\">Paula Abdul<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, really? Ellen DeGeneres?&#8221; wrote popular &#8220;Idol&#8221; blogger MJ Santilli at <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/ap\/ap_on_en_tv\/storytext\/us_tv_american_idol_degeneres\/33333640\/SIG=10n63chdr\/*http:\/\/mjsbigblog.com\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252577014_4\"><font color=\"#0058a6\">mjsbigblog.com<\/font><\/span><\/a>. &#8220;She guest judged &#8216;<span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252577014_5\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; cursor: hand\">So You Think You Can Dance<\/span>&#8216; last season, and her critiques were comic relief. So is she going to be a real judge or some kind of joke? She&#8217;s a comedian, not a singer or a musician. I&#8217;m kinda flummoxed here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others on the Internet, including posters on the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/ap\/ap_on_en_tv\/storytext\/us_tv_american_idol_degeneres\/33333640\/SIG=10pfgqi2l\/*http:\/\/AmericanIdol.com\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252577014_6\"><font color=\"#0058a6\">AmericanIdol.com<\/font><\/span><\/a> forums, said they were pleased that DeGeneres, who admittedly has no formal music experience, just a passion for tunes, would join <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252577014_7\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; cursor: hand\">Simon Cowell<\/span>, <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252577014_8\">Randy Jackson<\/span> and <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252577014_9\">Kara DioGuardi<\/span> on &#8220;Idol.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;with the excellence SITD readers expec, rather than my customary yawn of disinterest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I hired &#8220;Bogus&#8221; Doug Williams as executive managing editor at Shot In The Dark was that I could be assured we cover stories like this&#8230;: Fans took to the Internet after Wednesday&#8217;s announcement to express either pleasant surprise or total shock that DeGeneres was picked to replace Paula Abdul. &#8220;I mean, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}