{"id":1183,"date":"2010-04-05T05:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2012-10-20T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T13:21:12","slug":"pikaland-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/04\/05\/pikaland-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"pikaland idol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/22382.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/22392.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love American Idol (Hey! Don&#8217;t judge me!). But, I&#8217;m not here to discuss who I want to win. I will aim my disappointed curse words at my TV instead (you&#8217;re welcome) <\/p>\n<p>As artists, I feel we need to educate the masses on art and illustration. So when I saw A.I. contestant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanidol.com\/contestants\/season_9\/siobhan_magnus\/\">Siobhan Magnus<\/a> sporting ink from writer\/illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Gorey\">Edward Gorey<\/a>, I knew this society would be o.k.<\/p>\n<p>Siobhan&#8217;s tattoo is of death holding its umbrella over a group of children (so badass). It&#8217;s from Gorey&#8217;s 1963 illustrated book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gashlycrumb-Tinies-Edward-Gorey\/dp\/0747541604\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1270132363&#38;sr=8-1\">The Ghastlycrumb Tinies<\/a>, where 26 children (each of their names represents a letter of the alphabet), well&#8230;they die. In rhyme, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to come up with my own A.I. Ghastlycrumb Tinies but all I could think of was &#8220;S is for Siobhan who sang way too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"pikaland idol\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/04\/05\/pikaland-idol\/\" aria-label=\"More on pikaland idol\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27415,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/27415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}