{"id":543,"date":"2008-05-22T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T12:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-05-21T22:25:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T03:25:45","slug":"american-idol-2008-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/reviews\/american-idol-2008-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol 2008 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/reviews\/american-idrool-my-american-idol-picks\/\">I was close<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Michael Johns didn&#8217;t make it very far at all (being one of the first top 10 singers to get the boot). None of the girls made it to the top 2 slots, but Syesha Mercado did make it to the top 3 leaving the competition a match up between David Cook (the rocker who did Hello) and David Archuleta (the seventeen year old who sang his heart out to Imagine).<\/p>\n<p>David Cook took home the American Idol crown and he&#8217;s probably kicking himself since he&#8217;ll have to record something with the horrendous AIdol production. Ew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/syeshamercado1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-544\" title=\"syeshamercado1\" src=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/syeshamercado1-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Syesha Mercado\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/david-archuleta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-545\" title=\"david-archuleta\" src=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/david-archuleta-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"David Archuleta\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/30390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-546\" title=\"David Cook\" src=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/30390-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"David Cook\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I was close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[161,163,162],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-n-junk","category-reviews","tag-american-idol","tag-david-archuleta","tag-david-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}