{"id":4041,"date":"2018-07-01T23:18:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2018-07-01T23:18:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:18:14","slug":"straight-shooting-cher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/07\/01\/straight-shooting-cher\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Shooting Cher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aforementioned Stephanie J. Block and Emily Skinner play important roles in our next story.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>The Cher Show<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;just opened at the&nbsp;<em>Oriental Theatre&nbsp;<\/em>in Chicago and essays the career of&nbsp;<strong>Cher<\/strong>&nbsp;through use of her songs.&nbsp; Because Cher invented reinvention, three actresses play the diva.&nbsp; The final incarnation is played to the hilt by Block, while Skinner plays Cher\u2019s mom \u2013 and her performance was the one thing Cher liked most about the show when she went to see the musical.&nbsp; What did she think of the rest of the show?&nbsp; \u201cSome parts of it are really fabulous.&nbsp; We\u2019re going to work on the other parts.&nbsp; In many parts, it was much, much better than I thought it would be.&nbsp; And there were no parts where I wanted to gouge my eyes out.&nbsp; It needs work.&nbsp; I\u2019m not supposed to say that but I don\u2019t care.\u201d&nbsp; And that, in short, is why we love Cher.&nbsp; Hopefully everything is ironed out by the&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>opening on December 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aforementioned Stephanie J. Block and Emily Skinner play important roles in our next story.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Cher Show&nbsp;just opened at the&nbsp;Oriental Theatre&nbsp;in Chicago and essays the career of&nbsp;Cher&nbsp;through use of her songs.&nbsp; Because Cher invented reinvention, three actresses play the diva.&nbsp; The final incarnation is played to the hilt by Block, while Skinner plays Cher\u2019s mom<\/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-4041","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\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}