
{"id":5785,"date":"2009-05-08T17:44:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T01:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2009-05-08T17:44:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T01:44:23","slug":"anoop-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/05\/08\/anoop-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Anoop Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Kevin Foy and the Chapel Hill Town Council declared May 4th Anoop Day in Chapel Hill and presented a key to the town and a proclamation to Anoop Desai, a Chapel Hill native and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Idol\u00e2\u20ac\u009d finalist.<\/p>\n<p>Desai attended the council meeting Monday night accompanied by his parents, family members and a packed house of adoring fans.<\/p>\n<p>Desai, who attended East Chapel Hill High School and UNC, was recently voted off \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Idol,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but not before charming enough fans to make it through several rounds.<\/p>\n<p>A former member of the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a capella group the Clef Hangers, Desai \u00e2\u20ac\u201d now sporting a beard \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to pursue a singing career.<\/p>\n<p>His hometown remains charmed, as evidenced by Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ceremony and an enthusiastic and well-attended welcome back event last Sunday at The Franklin Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Kevin Foy and the Chapel Hill Town Council declared May 4th Anoop Day in Chapel Hill and presented a key to the town and a proclamation to Anoop Desai, a Chapel Hill native and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Idol\u00e2\u20ac\u009d finalist. Desai attended the council meeting Monday night accompanied by his parents, family members and a packed house&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}