{"id":2366,"date":"2016-11-20T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2016-11-20T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:12:51","slug":"pence-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/11\/20\/pence-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have been talking about <strong>Mike Pence <\/strong>seeing <strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong> on <em>Broadway<\/em>.\u00a0 First things first &#8211; how did our next vice president get tickets?\u00a0 And did he pay?\u00a0 &#8216;Cause that&#8217;s a lot of tickets for Mr. and Mrs. Pence, the <em>Secret Service<\/em>, and the guys who travel with him to electrocute&#8230;err, &#8220;convert&#8221; any gays they meet.\u00a0 Far more amazing is that anyone took offense to <strong>Brandon Victor Dixon<\/strong>&#8216;s speech (which was actually written by composer\/lyricist <strong>Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong>).\u00a0 <strong>Trump <\/strong><em>Tweeted <\/em>that the cast was &#8220;rude&#8221; and &#8220;harassed&#8221; Pence, and he demanded an apology.\u00a0 Did Trump even see the video of the speech?\u00a0 It&#8217;s readily available online because Dixon told the audience to record it.\u00a0 On Sunday&#8217;s <strong><em>Face the Nation<\/em><\/strong>, Pence said that he was not offended, adding &#8220;hats off to the cast and the extraordinary team of <em>Hamilton<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 So, what is this really about?\u00a0 Perhaps former <strong><em>Celebrity Apprentice<\/em><\/strong> contestant <strong>George Takei <\/strong>has stumbled on the truth: &#8220;I wonder if Pence went to <em>Hamilton<\/em> to take our focus off the <em>Trump<\/em> <em>University<\/em> fraud settlement.&#8221;\u00a0 Things that make you go hmmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have been talking about Mike Pence seeing Hamilton on Broadway.\u00a0 First things first &#8211; how did our next vice president get tickets?\u00a0 And did he pay?\u00a0 &#8216;Cause that&#8217;s a lot of tickets for Mr. and Mrs. Pence, the Secret Service, and the guys who travel with him to electrocute&#8230;err, &#8220;convert&#8221; any<\/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-2366","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\/2366","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=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}