{"id":35924,"date":"2020-12-14T01:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=35924"},"modified":"2020-12-14T01:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:14:27","slug":"shawn-mendes-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/shawn-mendes-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Mendes Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn\u2019t be <strong>Billy Masters <\/strong>if I didn\u2019t report on rumors.&nbsp; After all, that\u2019s my bread and butter (which has more ingredients than Kay\u2019s peanut butter cookies).&nbsp; This week, <strong>Shawn Mendes <\/strong>came out \u2013 and explained why he hasn\u2019t come out.&nbsp; \u201cThere was desperation for me to come out as being gay, which is such a ridiculous thing.\u201d&nbsp; Is it?&nbsp; Is it ridiculous?&nbsp; Because when I think of Shawn Mendes being gay\u2026I ain\u2019t laughing!&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s just completely ignorant and insensitive of people to be on that shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after giving that interview, Shawn was\u2026well, ignorant and insensitive.&nbsp; During the <strong><em>iHeartRadio Jingle Ball<\/em><\/strong>, Shawn referred to <strong>Sam Smith<\/strong> as \u201che\u201d, when Smith prefers \u201cthey\u201d.&nbsp; He (being Mendes) apologized via <em>Instagram<\/em>, which is what the kids do: \u201cI\u2019m so sorry for referring to you as a \u2018he\u2019 for your jingle ball introduction.&nbsp; It absolutely slipped my mind.&nbsp; Won\u2019t happen again.&nbsp; Sending you so much love!&nbsp; Also you absolutely are one of the funniest people I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d&nbsp; And I\u2019m sure Sam, like me, never gets tired of hearing that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn\u2019t be Billy Masters if I didn\u2019t report on rumors.&nbsp; After all, that\u2019s my bread and butter (which has more ingredients than Kay\u2019s peanut butter cookies).&nbsp; This week, Shawn Mendes came out \u2013 and explained why he hasn\u2019t come out.&nbsp; \u201cThere was desperation for me to come out as being gay, which is such<\/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-35924","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\/35924","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=35924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35925,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924\/revisions\/35925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}