{"id":1494,"date":"2015-11-23T03:56:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T11:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2015-11-23T03:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T11:56:18","slug":"cohen-nixes-2016-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/cohen-nixes-2016-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen Nixes 2016 Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <strong>Ben Cohen <\/strong>are in mourning.\u00a0 The 37-year-old rugby player, anti-bullying advocate, and friend of the gays has announced that he will NOT be releasing a 2016 calendar.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m back training hard in the gym which is killing me.\u00a0 No calendar this year as I&#8217;m to [sic] out of shape.\u00a0 Have a good Friday all.&#8221;\u00a0 This summer, Cohen&#8217;s weight gain got the attention of the British tabloids, leading him to <em>Tweet <\/em>some of the unflattering photos with the caption, &#8220;Eaten way to [sic] many burgers.\u00a0 Need to get back into shape!!\u00a0 Or maybe it was just the camera angle.\u00a0 Lol.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m told that some people close to Cohen tried to convince him to release a calendar with older, more flattering photos.\u00a0 Others even suggested some judicious <em>Photoshopping<\/em>.\u00a0 Cohen nixed these ideas, saying it would be &#8220;misleading and wrong&#8221;.\u00a0 If looking good via <em>Photoshop <\/em>is wrong, I don&#8217;t want to be right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Ben Cohen are in mourning.\u00a0 The 37-year-old rugby player, anti-bullying advocate, and friend of the gays has announced that he will NOT be releasing a 2016 calendar.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m back training hard in the gym which is killing me.\u00a0 No calendar this year as I&#8217;m to [sic] out of shape.\u00a0 Have a good<\/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-1494","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\/1494","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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}