{"id":519,"date":"2007-04-11T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/04\/11\/american-idol-i-dont-think-so-but-thanks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T14:38:18","slug":"american-idol-i-dont-think-so-but-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"American Idol?  I don&#8217;t think so, but thanks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night as I was taking my son to scouts, I was singing along to Donny.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 F<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlyrics.com\/lyrics\/rent\/seasonsoflove.htm\">ive hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes<\/a>&#8230; and my son says to me, &#8220;You should go on American Idol, Mom.&#8221;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I laughed.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;No, I can&#8217;t do that,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you should, Mom.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re a really good singer.&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go into the thousands of reasons why I would not, could not try out for American Idol (which, no, I haven&#8217;t watched this week&#8217;s show yet), but I thought that was a very nice thing for my newly teenagerized son to say.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s a sweetie.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I must cherish these little moments for soon he will hate me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, one of my favorite bloggers, Carmen, has started a new blog answering questions about how she lost 60 pounds in the last year.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She calls it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theelffdiet.com\/\">Elff diet<\/a>, which stands for &#8220;eat less food, fatty&#8221;, or the kinder, gentler version, &#8220;eat less fatty foods&#8221;.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She is so funny, and has a realistic approach to weight loss.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Go on over and check her out, and let her inspire you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night as I was taking my son to scouts, I was singing along to Donny.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes&#8230; and my son says to me, &#8220;You should go on American Idol, Mom.&#8221;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I laughed.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;No, I can&#8217;t do that,&#8221; I said. &#8220;But you should, Mom.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re a really good singer.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}