{"id":181,"date":"2006-03-14T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T06:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/2006\/03\/14\/step-it-up-folks\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T06:57:19","slug":"step-it-up-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/step-it-up-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Step it up folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Janey and I are watching American Idol and I&#8217;m just terribly dissapointed.  Every contestant so far (we&#8217;re only about half way through it) has gotten up and just thrown a bunch of <em>suck<\/em> all over the stage. bleh.<\/p>\n<p>Come on folks.  If you&#8217;re going to be on TV with any hope of making a carrer in music&#8230; you&#8217;re going to have to step it up!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I do have to mention one stand out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/taylor.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you watch american idol you probably have heard of Taylor Hicks. He looks like jay leno minus the chin, and with grey hair.  If you have a some free time this guy is definately worth watching&#8230;  Good Luck Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Janey and I are watching American Idol and I&#8217;m just terribly dissapointed. Every contestant so far (we&#8217;re only about half way through it) has gotten up and just thrown a bunch of suck all over the stage. bleh. Come on folks. If you&#8217;re going to be on TV with any hope of making a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/step-it-up-folks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Step it up folks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}