{"id":2141,"date":"2016-08-15T01:11:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2016-08-15T01:11:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:11:51","slug":"billy-barrowman-hit-ptown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/billy-barrowman-hit-ptown\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy &#038; Barrowman Hit Ptown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may come as a shock to you, but I just spent a lovely time with <strong>John Barrowman <\/strong>and his hubby <strong>Scott Gill <\/strong>in Provincetown.\u00a0 The duo were vacationing prior to Johnny&#8217;s appearance at Boston&#8217;s <strong><em>Comic-Con<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The pair caught a number of shows while in town.\u00a0 The night before I arrived, they went to see <strong><em>Well-Strung<\/em><\/strong>, which they loved.\u00a0 We all went to see <strong>Varla Jean Merman<\/strong>, and I had the best time watching Barrowman &#8211; who at one point was laughing so hard, I thought he was going to hyperventilate (to be fair, the sight of Merman in a burqa is quite hysterical).\u00a0 We discussed my recent split-open forehead which was glued shut in an ER.\u00a0 Scott then told me that he sliced open one of his fingers while cutting vegetables and actually glued the wound shut himself!\u00a0 Johnny shared an anecdote about how pleasurable Scott&#8217;s now-rough digit was, which I have filed away for future reference. \u00a0It should be mentioned that Gill was quite tickled to visit the mega-popular <strong><em>ScottCakes <\/em><\/strong>shop in Provincetown, owned by my pal <strong>Scott Cunningham<\/strong>.\u00a0 You must sample his sinfully delicious treats &#8211; Cunningham&#8217;s, not Gill&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I also asked Barrowman about a death threat he received.\u00a0 The organizers of Montreal <em>Comic-Con <\/em>received an e-mail from someone on the West Coast threatening a number of minority groups and targeting Johnny specifically.\u00a0 John refused to cancel &#8211; &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t gonna let the bastards win.&#8221;\u00a0 But he wouldn&#8217;t risk the well-being of his fans.\u00a0 So he was in a separate room and his talk was transmitted via video.\u00a0 As to meeting, greeting, and autographing, security arranged limited groups to visit Barrowman in person, and everyone was served &#8211; so to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may come as a shock to you, but I just spent a lovely time with John Barrowman and his hubby Scott Gill in Provincetown.\u00a0 The duo were vacationing prior to Johnny&#8217;s appearance at Boston&#8217;s Comic-Con.\u00a0 The pair caught a number of shows while in town.\u00a0 The night before I arrived, they went to see<\/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-2141","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\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}