{"id":10119,"date":"2020-05-15T20:38:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T01:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2020-05-15T20:38:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T01:38:50","slug":"american-idol-is-coming-back-for-season-4-on-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/american-idol-is-coming-back-for-season-4-on-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American Idol&#8221; Is Coming Back for Season 4 on ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10121\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/american-idol-5-15-2020-05024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/american-idol-5-15-2020-05024-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/american-idol-5-15-2020-05024-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/american-idol-5-15-2020-05024-1-260x156.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/american-idol-5-15-2020-05024-1-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are THRILLED to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmericanIdol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AmericanIdol<\/a> is coming back for Season 4 on ABC! \ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udfa4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3AhciQoSpH\">pic.twitter.com\/3AhciQoSpH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 American Idol (@AmericanIdol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanIdol\/status\/1261351774184632320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are THRILLED to announce that #AmericanIdol is coming back for Season 4 on ABC! \ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udfa4 pic.twitter.com\/3AhciQoSpH \u2014 American Idol (@AmericanIdol) May 15, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv_news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;American Idol&quot; 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