"Actual progress on KJ started 3 days ago." - July 13. Method was on him July 4th. So that's six days of p1 being broken.
Unless they're bullshitting.
It's hard to say. You can be sure guilds did some pulls on Al'Akir to try him out during that time. He wasn't the next boss killed but who knows who tried what when they were trying to decide between Nefarian/Cho'gall/Al'Akir.Alakir wasn't being progressed on for 37 days though.