{"id":4450,"date":"2018-11-19T01:25:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T09:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2018-11-19T01:25:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T09:25:48","slug":"jamals-fiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/jamals-fiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamal&#8217;s Fianc\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jussie Smollett&nbsp;<\/strong>is enjoying having a&nbsp;<em>fianc\u00e9&nbsp;<\/em>on&nbsp;<strong><em>Empire<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; But it almost turned out quite differently.&nbsp; \u201cThere was talk about Jamal having a white boyfriend and I said, \u2018Fuck no!\u2019&nbsp; Not for any reason except we have a responsibility and we have such a beautiful opportunity to show two black men in a relationship together, in a healthy relationship.&nbsp; But it was important and that wasn\u2019t anything against white men.&nbsp; It was just a thing of\u2026this is what I wished I had seen as a kid because if I had seen certain things as an adolescent, I would have had a much different understanding of who I am in an earlier space.\u201d&nbsp; I\u2019m still confused \u2013 would he date a white guy or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jussie Smollett&nbsp;is enjoying having a&nbsp;fianc\u00e9&nbsp;on&nbsp;Empire.&nbsp; But it almost turned out quite differently.&nbsp; \u201cThere was talk about Jamal having a white boyfriend and I said, \u2018Fuck no!\u2019&nbsp; Not for any reason except we have a responsibility and we have such a beautiful opportunity to show two black men in a relationship together, in a healthy relationship.&nbsp;<\/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-4450","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\/4450","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=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}