{"id":2223,"date":"2016-09-19T06:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2016-09-19T06:36:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:36:56","slug":"billy-at-the-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/09\/19\/billy-at-the-emmys\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy at the Emmys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&#8220;I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male<br \/>\nto play a female transgender on television.<\/em><em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>\u2013\u00a0<\/em><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Jeffrey Tambor<\/strong>&#8216;s acceptance speech after winning the <strong><em>Emmy <\/em><\/strong>for <em>Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who still thinks our community isn&#8217;t visible on TV clearly didn&#8217;t watch this year&#8217;s <em>Emmy Awards<\/em>, which kicked off with <strong>Louie Anderson<\/strong>&#8216;s win for playing the mother on <strong><em>Baskets<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;I have not always been a very good man, but I play one helluva woman.&#8221;\u00a0 That was followed up by <strong>Jeffrey Tambor<\/strong>&#8216;s second <em>Emmy <\/em>for <strong><em>Transparent<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m always happy when <strong>Holland Taylor <\/strong>is acknowledged.\u00a0 This time, the mention came from partner <strong>Sarah Paulson<\/strong>, whose plus one was the real <strong>Marcia Clark<\/strong>.\u00a0 I believe she was wearing a Columbian necklace.<\/p>\n<p>The given at any awards show is that there will be notable exceptions to the <strong><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/strong> sequence.\u00a0 This year, the names <strong>Beth Howland <\/strong>and <strong>Pat Harrington <\/strong>spring to mind &#8211; to say nothing of <strong>Big Ang <\/strong>and <strong>Chyna<\/strong>.\u00a0 I guess they had to make room to acknowledge the great television careers of <strong>Glenn Frey <\/strong>and <strong>Prince<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.&#8221; \u2013\u00a0Jeffrey Tambor&#8216;s acceptance speech after winning the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Anyone who still thinks our community isn&#8217;t visible on TV clearly didn&#8217;t watch this year&#8217;s Emmy Awards, which kicked off with<\/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-2223","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\/2223","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=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}