{"id":2243,"date":"2016-09-26T02:15:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2016-09-26T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:15:39","slug":"billy-gilmans-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/billy-gilmans-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Gilman&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <strong>Billy Gilman<\/strong>.\u00a0 Over the years, I watched him on the annual <strong><em>Jerry Lewis Telethon <\/em><\/strong>and saw him develop into a fine young man with a good voice &#8211; and he wasn&#8217;t so bad to look at.\u00a0 While the perception is that he hasn&#8217;t had many opportunities since coming out, that isn&#8217;t quite true &#8211; the offers dried up long before his queer revelation.\u00a0 He&#8217;s now resurfaced on <strong><em>The Voice<\/em><\/strong> singing <strong>Adele<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;When We Were Young&#8221;.\u00a0 He was great, and all of the judges vied for him (he chose <strong>Adam <\/strong>as his mentor).\u00a0 While I&#8217;m happy for him, aren&#8217;t these competitions designed for unknowns to get a break?\u00a0 <strong><em>American Idol<\/em><\/strong> didn&#8217;t let people compete who previously had a recording contract.\u00a0 So Gilman is in a lull.\u00a0 Does that make it fair for him to compete against unknowns?\u00a0 What&#8217;s next?\u00a0 <strong>Barbara Mandrell <\/strong>wanting to get away from her sisters and the County Fair circuit?\u00a0 <strong>Reba McEntire <\/strong>crying about her dead band again?\u00a0 We all have problems.\u00a0 While I&#8217;m rooting for Billy, I&#8217;m not completely sure it&#8217;s fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Billy Gilman.\u00a0 Over the years, I watched him on the annual Jerry Lewis Telethon and saw him develop into a fine young man with a good voice &#8211; and he wasn&#8217;t so bad to look at.\u00a0 While the perception is that he hasn&#8217;t had many opportunities since coming out, that<\/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-2243","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\/2243","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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}