{"id":245,"date":"2009-04-22T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/04\/22\/what-susan-boyle-means-for-all-of-us\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:21","slug":"what-susan-boyle-means-for-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/04\/22\/what-susan-boyle-means-for-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What Susan Boyle means for all of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_plNK-YE-FJo\/Se96qGSl5fI\/AAAAAAAAAZw\/5loZ1b2mx_I\/s1600-h\/susan-boyle-pic-itv.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 216px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/susan-boyle-pic-itv.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327611747864274418\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Like most of you, I participated in the global phenomenon that was Susan Boyle&#8217;s YouTube version of her now-famous performance. (If, by some chance, you haven&#8217;t seen it, you can see the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Since my first viewing of it (and yes, I teared up &#8211; actually, I cried like a baby) I&#8217;ve been wondering what the incredible response from around the world to this lady from Scotland really means. So far, I haven&#8217;t come up with any blinding insights, but today, I did come across a blog post from Bob Cringlely that does a good job at tackling some of those questions, so I thought I&#8217;d pass it along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cringely.com\/2009\/04\/the-global-village\/\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you have any more insights, please add them to the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most of you, I participated in the global phenomenon that was Susan Boyle&#8217;s YouTube version of her now-famous performance. (If, by some chance, you haven&#8217;t seen it, you can see the video here.) Since my first viewing of it (and yes, I teared up &#8211; actually, I cried like a baby) I&#8217;ve been wondering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1aday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/susan-boyle-pic-itv.jpg?fit=300%2C216&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-3X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}