{"id":597,"date":"2007-07-15T22:08:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T04:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/15\/the-next-food-network-star-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2007-07-15T22:08:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T04:08:38","slug":"the-next-food-network-star-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/15\/the-next-food-network-star-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Food Network Star Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/nextfood.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>This should probably go over on the  food  blog I started recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitchenduck.com\/\">Kitchen Duck<\/a>, but it this news is about a TV show, so I&#8217;m putting it here.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to write a word about what happened on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/star\">The Next Food Network Star<\/a> tonight:  wow!<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230;maybe a few words.<\/p>\n<p>I had Amy pegged as the person to beat on the show, and was very surprised to see that they let her go.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; I have no idea.&nbsp; The only thing I can think of is that they liked the personalities that Jag and Rory showed.<\/p>\n<p>The second bomb to drop was that the message the Food Network put on the screen that some of the facts of Jag&#8217;s military service were wrong (he didn&#8217;t go to Afganistan) and that he really didn&#8217;t graduate culinary school.&nbsp; They brought him in, and he explained what happened and then resigned from the competition.&nbsp;&nbsp; Never saw that coming.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s down to two people:&nbsp; Amy and Rory.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/star\">vote until July 17th for who you want to see at The Next Food Network Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should probably go over on the food blog I started recently Kitchen Duck, but it this news is about a TV show, so I&#8217;m putting it here. 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