{"id":520203,"date":"2010-04-08T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=99762"},"modified":"2010-04-08T05:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:55:18","slug":"%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-judges-save-michael-%e2%80%9cbig-mike%e2%80%9d-lynche-from-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520203","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Judges Save Michael \u201cBig Mike\u201d Lynche From Elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Idol<\/em> host Ryan Seacrest promised a surprise at the beginning of Wednesday\u2019s Results Show. This time he meant what he said.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aPsXjxPj-WQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aPsXjxPj-WQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>American Idol<\/em> judges used their one-time save to rescue Florida dad Michael Lynche from elimination Wednesday after viewers of the talent show gave the thumbs-down to the Teddy Bear singer&#8217;s rendition of &#8220;Eleanor Rigby.&#8221; Mike took the stage for a gospel-inspired take on Maxwell&#8217;s \u201cThis Woman\u2019s Work\u201d to try to earn the judges\u2019 save &#8212; he was successful. Audience voting was overruled when the judging panel gave Lynche their once-a-season save, noting that the burly crooner has consistently staged strong performances and won their praise.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe all wish you did something like that yesterday,\u201d<\/em> judge Simon Cowell said. <em>\u201cThis is why you\u2019re in the position you\u2019re in right now, because of what happened yesterday. We only have one save in the competition, and this is unanimous \u2013 we have decided we\u2019re going to see you next week.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pTtd1K_Qi9S8BdxnkVyHZsUE_Pg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pTtd1K_Qi9S8BdxnkVyHZsUE_Pg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pTtd1K_Qi9S8BdxnkVyHZsUE_Pg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pTtd1K_Qi9S8BdxnkVyHZsUE_Pg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Idol host Ryan Seacrest promised a surprise at the beginning of Wednesday\u2019s Results Show. This time he meant what he said. American Idol judges used their one-time save to rescue Florida dad Michael Lynche from elimination Wednesday after viewers of the talent show gave the thumbs-down to the Teddy Bear singer&#8217;s rendition of &#8220;Eleanor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}