{"id":1001,"date":"2015-05-17T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2015-05-17T22:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T05:25:03","slug":"familiar-faces-returning-to-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/05\/17\/familiar-faces-returning-to-the-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar faces returning to The View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong> (perennial fodder for this column) is poised to undergo even more changes. As I revealed a few weeks ago, serious negotiations are underway for <strong>Raven-Symon\u00e9 <\/strong>to join the cast full time next season &#8211; thus ending talks with <strong>Cristela Alfonso<\/strong>, who was up for the same job. Rounding out the cast may be another familiar face. The brass are quite eager to get <strong>Joy Behar <\/strong>back onboard. Despite what you may have heard, she didn&#8217;t leave of her own accord two years ago. She was jettisoned along with <strong>Elisabeth Hasselbeck<\/strong>. But with the subsequent departure of <strong>Sherri Shepherd<\/strong>, the show lost a bit of life and spark. Guest spots by Behar have proven popular with fans, and <em>ABC<\/em> believes her return could help the show find its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The View (perennial fodder for this column) is poised to undergo even more changes. As I revealed a few weeks ago, serious negotiations are underway for Raven-Symon\u00e9 to join the cast full time next season &#8211; thus ending talks with Cristela Alfonso, who was up for the same job. Rounding out the cast may be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}