{"id":5246,"date":"2011-02-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/long-beach-native-named-finalist-on-american-idol\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:00:00","slug":"long-beach-native-named-finalist-on-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/long-beach-native-named-finalist-on-american-idol","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Native Named Finalist On American Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"559\" width=\"705\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y2kpBBPary8?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US&#038;hd=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y2kpBBPary8?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US&#038;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"559\" width=\"705\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:27am |<\/strong> A local boy is about to make good in a major way, as Long Beach native &#8211; and proud of it, as you can see in the video &#8211; Clint Jun Gamboa has been selected as a finalist for the current season of American Idol.<\/p>\n<p>Gamboa made a splash in the audition round a few weeks ago with his rendition of &#8220;Billionaire,&#8221; and today was named to the final list of 24 contestants that will perform in the wildly-popular elimination competition. 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