{"id":338,"date":"2006-03-22T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2006-03-22T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T17:33:42","slug":"the-american-idol-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"The American Idol Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This season of American Idol, Daniel and I have been avid participants. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and sometimes Thursday nights we are glued to the set.  We had no idea the effect it was having on our children.<\/p>\n<p>Noah, as most of you know is very vocal so his little brother Graham, (18mo.) is usually the quiet one. Graham is my snuggle bug and enjoys watching and just imitaitng Noah&#8217;s antics. But lately he is coming into his own little person. And now I can pin point the major influence in Graham&#8217;s change of personality. American Idol. Soon after auditions, Graham started walking through the house singing and shouting. He is now accompanied by Noah&#8217;s min-guitar or a makshift microphone, anything from baseball bats to golf clubs. My quiet little Graham is now the loudest crooner of them all! I think he has found his passion. Each day he picks up his little guitar, puts on his straw cowboy hat, at leat one of his boots and begins to sing at the top of his lungs. He also must have a true ear for music, because he only lets Daniel sing with him, he tells me no!<\/p>\n<p>-Brooke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season of American Idol, Daniel and I have been avid participants. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and sometimes Thursday nights we are glued to the set. We had no idea the effect it was having on our children. Noah, as most of you know is very vocal so his little brother Graham, (18mo.) is usually the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}