{"id":1800,"date":"2009-05-24T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/05\/when-will-the-susan-boyle-backlash-begin\/"},"modified":"2009-05-24T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T22:07:55","slug":"when-will-the-susan-boyle-backlash-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"When will the Susan Boyle Backlash Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For my sins I&#39;ve been watching Britain&#39;s Got Talent on the tele, and I thought Susan Boyle was rubbish. Apparently I was in the minority. Her first few notes of Memory missed utterly and she was a bit reedy through most of the tricky bits. Am I the only person that finds her just plain annoying when she&#39;s not singing? Her fist-pumping, full-of-herself celebrations are very un-British and I suspect that the fickle public will turn. That said, I suppose rather sadly that it will be the newspapers that decide whether we should like or loath her, whether her start should soar or tumble. They&#39;ve decided she&#39;s an angel and are unlikely to go back on their reckoning.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Update &#8211; 28th May 2009:<\/span> Apparently it has begun, right on cue:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/article6161198.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/article6161198.ece<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.tv.yahoo.com\/blog\/article\/188332\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/uk.tv.yahoo.com\/blog\/article\/188332\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my sins I&#39;ve been watching Britain&#39;s Got Talent on the tele, and I thought Susan Boyle was rubbish. Apparently I was in the minority. Her first few notes of Memory missed utterly and she was a bit reedy through most of the tricky bits. Am I the only person that finds her just plain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-music","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}