{"id":1719,"date":"2016-02-29T05:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2016-02-29T05:08:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:08:35","slug":"smith-forgot-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/smith-forgot-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Forgot Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sam Smith<\/strong> made a bit of a bungle when he said, &#8220;I read an article a few months ago by <strong>Sir Ian McKellen<\/strong>, and he said that no openly gay man had ever won an <em>Oscar<\/em>.\u00a0 If this is the case &#8211; even if this isn&#8217;t the case &#8211; I want to dedicate this to the LGBT community all around the world.\u00a0 I stand here tonight as a proud gay man, and I hope we can all stand together as equals one day.&#8221;\u00a0 What Sir Ian actually said was, &#8220;Why has no openly gay man ever won the best actor <em>Oscar<\/em>?&#8221;\u00a0 A big difference &#8211; one that <strong>Dustin Lance Black <\/strong>quickly pointed out via Twitter: &#8220;Hey <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">@SamSmithWorld<\/span><\/strong>, if you have no idea who I am, it may be time to stop texting my <em>fianc\u00e9<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 MEOW!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Smith made a bit of a bungle when he said, &#8220;I read an article a few months ago by Sir Ian McKellen, and he said that no openly gay man had ever won an Oscar.\u00a0 If this is the case &#8211; even if this isn&#8217;t the case &#8211; I want to dedicate this to<\/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-1719","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\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}