{"id":3774,"date":"2009-11-10T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2009-11-10T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:42:38","slug":"shock-horror-simon-cowell-knows-what-he%e2%80%99s-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3774","title":{"rendered":"Shock Horror &#8211; Simon Cowell Knows What He&#8217;s Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 5px;\" src=\"\/images\/clockworkorange.jpg\" alt=\"Clockwork Orange\" width=\"380\" height=\"349\" \/>I am chuckling to myself reading the newspaper copy in the UK today.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t watch the X Factor but the name &#8220;Jedward&#8221; has insinuated itself into our consciousness through it&#8217;s appearances in the media recently. The Irish singing duo have we understand won the X-Factor show and despite Cowell&#8217;s earlier criticism of the pair the conspiracy theorists are saying that&#8217;s what he wanted all along.<\/p>\n<p>So let me get this straight, Cowell has arranged for a pair of unknowns to win a show so he can sign them up on a contract which favours him and then dump them after a year of making money out of them? I can&#8217;t believe it. I&#8217;m shocked, I&#8217;m \u2026 no I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck Simon. If people are daft enough to think that the X-Factor is anything other than an annual carnival of the absurd where only an occasional contestant will ever make a career out of it then more fool them. Enjoy the X-Factor for what it is &#8211; fun and don&#8217;t attack Cowell for doing his job &#8211; I.E. providing you with that entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Cowell is no angel but he&#8217;s good at what he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am chuckling to myself reading the newspaper copy in the UK today. We don&#8217;t watch the X Factor but the name &#8220;Jedward&#8221; has insinuated itself into our consciousness through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3774\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1815,1814],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}