{"id":3965,"date":"2013-12-15T20:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2013-12-16T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:19:06","slug":"superman-is-nicolas-mcdonald-christmas-winners-single-hope-for-the-x-factor-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/3965\/superman-is-nicolas-mcdonald-christmas-winners-single-hope-for-the-x-factor-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman is Scottish teenage singer Nicholas McDonald&#8217;s Christmas winner\u2019s single hope for The X Factor 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas McDonald\u2019s has gone with a little known song for his winner\u2019s single in The X Factor competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/12\/nick.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/12\/nick.png\" alt=\"Nicholas Mcdonald \" title=\"Nicholas Mcdonald\" width=\"559\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3966\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/12\/nick.png 559w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/12\/nick-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The young Scott has gone with \u2018Superman\u2019 by Five For Fighting in his bid to secure the X Factor 2013 crown over the bookies favourite <a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/3958\/\">Sam Bailey<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The track is the title of a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Five for Fighting (stage name of American singer-songwriter John Ondrasik). It was released in April 2001 as the second single from his album America Town.<\/p>\n<p>Should he win in the finals tonight, he would become only the second Scottish person win the show in X Factor history.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p60GuJOvzc4?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GRz4FY0ZcwI?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas McDonald\u2019s has gone with a little known song for his winner\u2019s single in The X Factor competition. The young Scott has gone with \u2018Superman\u2019 by Five For Fighting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,20],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liveshows","tag-nicholas-mcdonald","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/12\/nick.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}