{"id":2781,"date":"2017-05-15T04:22:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2017-05-15T04:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:22:42","slug":"american-idols-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/american-idols-back\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong><em>American Idol<\/em><\/strong> limped off the air last year, <strong>Ryan Seacrest <\/strong>said, &#8220;Goodbye&#8230;for now&#8221; &#8211; a not-too-subtle sign that the show could return in the future.&nbsp; Who thought &#8220;the future&#8221; would come so quickly?&nbsp; While Seacrest has not formally been named host, I hear it was part of his deal to join <em>ABC<\/em> and co-host with <strong>Kelly Ripa <\/strong>in the AM.&nbsp; Why would Seacrest fly back and forth to LA every week to host a show?&nbsp; Why not?&nbsp; As to the judging panel, the <em>ABC<\/em> brass tried to get the original <em>American Idol<\/em>, <strong>Kelly Clarkson<\/strong>, to sign on.&nbsp; However, <em>NBC <\/em>snagged her for <strong><em>The Voice<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Adding insult to injury, <strong>Jennifer Hudson <\/strong>will also be a coach on <em>The Voice<\/em>.&nbsp; So, what about <em>AI<\/em>?&nbsp; I hear <strong>Clay<\/strong>&#8216;s name mentioned, but heaven only knows.&nbsp; While I&#8217;ll be glad if some of my pals get their jobs back, I really hope a revamped <em>Idol<\/em> is worth watching &#8211; because it sure wasn&#8217;t those last few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When American Idol limped off the air last year, Ryan Seacrest said, &#8220;Goodbye&#8230;for now&#8221; &#8211; a not-too-subtle sign that the show could return in the future.&nbsp; Who thought &#8220;the future&#8221; would come so quickly?&nbsp; While Seacrest has not formally been named host, I hear it was part of his deal to join ABC and co-host<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}