{"id":1981,"date":"2016-06-13T00:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T07:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2016-06-13T00:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T07:51:27","slug":"simmons-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/simmons-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Simmons&#8217; Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of <strong>Richard Simmons<\/strong>&#8216; recent hospital stay, a fabulous rumor has emerged- that he&#8217;s transitioning (presumably from male to female &#8211; but don&#8217;t quote me on that).\u00a0 It bears mentioning that this rumor started in the <em>National Enquirer<\/em>, which had a cover story emblazoned with the words &#8220;Call me <strong>Fiona<\/strong>!&#8221;, and promising details of his &#8220;secret boob job &amp; castration surgery&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 How could you see that on a checkout stand and not buy it?\u00a0 Well, I will save you the trouble (and the $4.99) &#8211; it&#8217;s all lies.\u00a0 According to Simmons&#8217; publicist, there is not one iota of truth to the story.\u00a0 And why would a publicist lie?\u00a0 Richard explains the hospital stay as follows: &#8220;I was dehydrated and needed some fluids.&#8221;\u00a0 I bet he did!\u00a0 Lies or not, I will forever refer to him as Fiona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Richard Simmons&#8216; recent hospital stay, a fabulous rumor has emerged- that he&#8217;s transitioning (presumably from male to female &#8211; but don&#8217;t quote me on that).\u00a0 It bears mentioning that this rumor started in the National Enquirer, which had a cover story emblazoned with the words &#8220;Call me Fiona!&#8221;, and promising details<\/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-1981","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\/1981","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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}