{"id":885,"date":"2009-04-17T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2009-04-17T01:31:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:31:43","slug":"she-was-never-given-the-chance-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;. she was never given the chance before&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"susan boyle (photo: britain's got talents)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/suaan-boyle.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"888\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?attachment_id=888\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/suaan-boyle.jpg?fit=500%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,288\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"suaan-boyle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/suaan-boyle.jpg?fit=500%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-888\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/suaan-boyle.jpg?resize=500%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/suaan-boyle.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/suaan-boyle.jpg?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>the right:<\/strong> anyone should be given a chance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>simon cowell: &#8220;ok, what&#8217;s the dream?&#8221;<br \/>\nsusan boyle: &#8220;i am trying to be a professional singer.&#8221;<br \/>\nsimon: &#8220;and why haven&#8217;t it worked out so far, susan?&#8221;<br \/>\nsusan: &#8220;i was never given the chance before&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>being a never-been-kissed\u00a047-year-old, this unemployed lady wants to be as successful as elaine paige. didn&#8217;t <strong>look<\/strong> like it was gonna happen, not with her look. in fact, it looked like a joke&#8230;. until she hit her first note on the song &#8216;i dreamed a dream&#8217; from &#8216;les miserables&#8217; on the show &#8216;britain&#8217;s got talents&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>note:<\/strong> technology made this possible as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY\" target=\"_blank\">please watch the entire video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the right: anyone should be given a chance simon cowell: &#8220;ok, what&#8217;s the dream?&#8221; susan boyle: &#8220;i am trying to be a professional singer.&#8221; simon: &#8220;and why haven&#8217;t it worked out so far, susan?&#8221; susan: &#8220;i was never given the chance before&#8230;.&#8221; being a never-been-kissed\u00a047-year-old, this unemployed lady wants to be as successful as elaine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-right"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pp6zn-eh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=480","url_meta":{"origin":885,"position":0},"title":"lincoln&#8217;s idea","author":"deacon","date":"10 Feb 09","format":false,"excerpt":"a man is nothing without his views and knowing where he stands on issues. and lincoln had both firmly in place.\u00a0feb 12th marks the bicentennial of lincoln's birth. and other than his history-defining and world-changing\u00a0view on slavery and the union, we want to bring this up: 'while we do not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the past","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"lincoln-t","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/lincoln-t.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":693,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=693","url_meta":{"origin":885,"position":1},"title":"the blog and the ambition of kathy horyn","author":"deacon","date":"10 Mar 09","format":false,"excerpt":"the right: being ambitious enough to push fashion forward relentlessly going to parsons right next to the byrant park more than a decade ago, my friend & classmate, somsack, and i never missed our\u00a0semiannual\u00a0chance to sneak into the new york shows. it's the time of the year that\u00a0awkward beauties roam\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the right&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the right","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=18"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":91,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=91","url_meta":{"origin":885,"position":2},"title":"shanghai &#038; 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