{"id":2237,"date":"2016-09-26T02:14:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2016-09-26T02:14:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:14:22","slug":"kimmel-vs-dame-maggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/kimmel-vs-dame-maggie\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel vs. Dame Maggie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We filed our last column on the heels of the <strong><em>Emmy Awards<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s still some unfinished business.\u00a0 One of <strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong>&#8216;s running bits was about the much-lauded <strong>Dame Maggie Smith<\/strong>, who has never shown up at an <em>Emmy <\/em>ceremony &#8211; despite having been nominated nine times, and winning three times.\u00a0 So Kimmel made a vow &#8211; to win the award, you had to be present!\u00a0 &#8220;If you want an <em>Emmy<\/em>, you better hop on a plane right now and get your Dowager Count-ass over here.&#8221;\u00a0 When Dame Maggie did inevitably win, Jimmy stormed the stage saying, &#8220;No, No, No &#8211; we&#8217;re not mailing this to her.\u00a0 Maggie, if you want this, it will be in Lost and Found.&#8221;\u00a0 Maggie <em>Tweeted<\/em>: &#8220;I was very astonished and pleased to win the award.\u00a0 I feel the Emmys have been overly generous to me.\u00a0 If Mr. Kimmel could please direct me to the lost and found office I will try and be on the next flight.\u00a0 Love, Old Maggie.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We filed our last column on the heels of the Emmy Awards.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s still some unfinished business.\u00a0 One of Jimmy Kimmel&#8216;s running bits was about the much-lauded Dame Maggie Smith, who has never shown up at an Emmy ceremony &#8211; despite having been nominated nine times, and winning three times.\u00a0 So Kimmel made a<\/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-2237","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\/2237","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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}