{"id":2548,"date":"2017-01-30T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2017-01-30T03:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:49:00","slug":"will-the-real-marilyn-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/01\/30\/will-the-real-marilyn-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will The Real Marilyn Stand Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central African Republic recently issued a series of stamps featuring <strong>Marilyn Monroe<\/strong>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a surprise &#8211; celebrities are regularly seen on stamps.\u00a0 However, one of the photos in the series isn&#8217;t the blonde bombshell at all.\u00a0 It&#8217;s female impersonator <strong>Jimmy James<\/strong>!\u00a0 For those of you who don&#8217;t know, James was internationally acclaimed for his eerie transformation into Marilyn Monroe.\u00a0 He was so convincing that <em>LA Eyeworks <\/em>featured him (as Marilyn) in an ad alongside actual legends. \u00a0The photo by <strong>Greg Gorman <\/strong>caused quite a stir and brought a threat of legal action by the Monroe estate.\u00a0 So the ad was quickly quashed &#8211; but still lives on thanks to the Internet.\u00a0 And one of those photos appears on the stamp!\u00a0 While I suppose it&#8217;s flattering on some level, it&#8217;s also not kosher &#8211; if the Central African Republic is at all interested in being kosher.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s what caught my eye.\u00a0 In reporting this story, the <em>New York Post<\/em> referred to James as &#8220;a transgender New York entertainer&#8221;.\u00a0 This was news to me.\u00a0 So I reached out to Jimmy and here&#8217;s what he said: &#8220;My attorneys always refer to me as &#8216;she&#8217; and &#8216;her&#8217;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s my policy to never correct people so as to not make them feel uncomfortable and because I don&#8217;t care.\u00a0 I&#8217;m perceived as a woman all day.\u00a0 So I guess I&#8217;ve transitioned already.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central African Republic recently issued a series of stamps featuring Marilyn Monroe.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a surprise &#8211; celebrities are regularly seen on stamps.\u00a0 However, one of the photos in the series isn&#8217;t the blonde bombshell at all.\u00a0 It&#8217;s female impersonator Jimmy James!\u00a0 For those of you who don&#8217;t know, James was internationally acclaimed for<\/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-2548","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\/2548","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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}