{"id":1000,"date":"2008-02-06T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/american-idol-7x08-best-of-the-rest\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T01:00:08","slug":"american-idol-7x08-best-of-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/american-idol-7x08-best-of-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol 7&#215;08 &#8211; Best of the Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Best&#8221; has double connotation in this episode, I&#8217;m guessing.  Because eight hours of auditions hasn&#8217;t been enough so far, they decide to give us another hour of auditions which weren&#8217;t good enough or funny enough to put in the first eight hours.  Although if I recall correctly, there were a few really good auditions in last year&#8217;s &#8220;best of the rest&#8221; show that I was surprised hadn&#8217;t been highlighted the first time around.  Anyway, the real good news here?  Next week is Hollywood week!  And the good news there: we&#8217;re almost to the competition part, which I like better.  The auditions are just getting old for me.  For whatever reason, I still enjoy the auditions on <i>Australian Idol<\/i>; perhaps because it&#8217;s just a better show.  I still need to finish watching last season (for which I&#8217;ve amazingly remained unspoiled).<\/p>\n<p>[Feedreader\/Livejournal\/Facebook readers click through to see the embedded live blog]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coveritlive.com\/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&#038;task=viewaltcast&#038;altcast_code=0e8f49d385&#038;height=550&#038;width=470\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"550px\" width=\"470px\" frameBorder =\"0\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Best&#8221; has double connotation in this episode, I&#8217;m guessing. Because eight hours of auditions hasn&#8217;t been enough so far, they decide to give us another hour of auditions which weren&#8217;t good enough or funny enough to put in the first eight hours. Although if I recall correctly, there were a few really good auditions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[5],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":997,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/american-idol-7x07-atlanta-auditions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000,"position":0},"title":"American Idol 7&#215;07 &#8211; Atlanta Auditions","author":"Jandy","date":"February 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, goodness, I'm about to be late... Liveblog will be up in a minute. 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