{"id":2192,"date":"2009-09-17T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realitydaze.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2009-09-17T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:03:07","slug":"story-over-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/09\/17\/story-over-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Story over Talent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigh. America, America, America – sometimes I wonder about you. Half the time as Reality Voters, you get it right<\/a>. But then there’s the other half, and I wonder… what the HELL? You know what I’m talking about, yes? We waited through almost two full hours of filler on America’s Got Talent last night – including a performance by the best of the worst, and watched Shakira dry hump a speaker box, and other atrocities… all to find out the winner in the last 2 minutes of the show.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t Recycled Percussion.
\nIt wasn’t even Voices of Glory – which would have been predictable and also wrong. It wasn’t the Fab Five – who are fabulous indeed. And it wasn’t Barbara Padilla, who’s Ava Maria makes me love opera…<\/p>\n

No. It was the unemployed chicken catcher, who hasn’t turned in a decent performance since his audition – Kevin Skinner.<\/p>\n

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\n…
\n…<\/p>\n

KEVIN SKINNER?! People are you NUTS? When there were WET ROCKER BOYZ PLAYING DRUMS<\/a>? And against second place Barbara Padilla?<\/p>\n

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All on THIS performance?
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We all know it was his audition that won the hearts of America, and we wish Kevin the best – but.. SRSLY?! Come AWN. Sigh.<\/p>\n

Oh well – On to bigger and better things… SYTYCD and SURVIVOR! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sigh. America, America, America – sometimes I wonder about you. Half the time as Reality Voters, you get it right. But then there’s the other half, and I wonder… what the HELL? You know what I’m talking about, yes? We waited through almost two full hours of filler on America’s Got Talent last night – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}