{"id":31227,"date":"2020-11-16T01:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=31227"},"modified":"2020-11-16T01:24:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:24:19","slug":"mccarthy-cries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/11\/16\/mccarthy-cries\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Cries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our opening quote could have been, \u201cThe road to hell is paved with good intentions.\u201d&nbsp; <strong>Melissa McCarthy<\/strong>\u2019s upcoming flick, <strong><em>Superintelligence<\/em><\/strong>, had a carefully thought-out promotional plan.&nbsp; During <strong><em>20 Days of Kindness<\/em><\/strong>, <em>HBO Max <\/em>would donate $20K a day to a worthy charity.&nbsp; What could go wrong, right?&nbsp; Wrong.&nbsp; One of the recipients was <strong><em>Exodus Cry<\/em><\/strong>, an organization that is against reproductive choice and vilifies the LGBTQ community.&nbsp; When Melissa heard about this, she was outraged enough to cry through an apology.&nbsp; \u201cThere\u2019s no other way to say it \u2013 we blew it.&nbsp; We made a mistake and we backed a charity that, upon proper vetting, stands for everything that we do not.&nbsp; So I want to thank everyone on social media who said, \u2018What are you doing?&nbsp; Are you sure you want to back this?\u2019&nbsp; Because the answer was no, we do not.\u201d&nbsp; How do you rectify that?&nbsp; McCarthy says, \u201cWe have pulled it.\u201d&nbsp; So who\u2019s getting that $20K?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our opening quote could have been, \u201cThe road to hell is paved with good intentions.\u201d&nbsp; Melissa McCarthy\u2019s upcoming flick, Superintelligence, had a carefully thought-out promotional plan.&nbsp; During 20 Days of Kindness, HBO Max would donate $20K a day to a worthy charity.&nbsp; What could go wrong, right?&nbsp; Wrong.&nbsp; One of the recipients was Exodus Cry,<\/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-31227","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\/31227","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=31227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31236,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31227\/revisions\/31236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}