{"id":4489,"date":"2018-12-03T04:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2018-12-03T04:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:14:18","slug":"rita-returns-to-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/12\/03\/rita-returns-to-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita Returns to Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever said you can never go home again never met&nbsp;<strong>Rita Moreno<\/strong>.&nbsp; The 86-year-old&nbsp;<em>EGOT&nbsp;<\/em>winner is having a third act that rivals her first two.&nbsp; Not only is she enjoying major success on the&nbsp;<em>Netflix&nbsp;<\/em>reboot of&nbsp;<strong><em>One Day at a Time<\/em><\/strong>, but she\u2019s returning to her roots.&nbsp; As you know, Moreno won her&nbsp;<em>Oscar&nbsp;<\/em>playing Anita in the film version of&nbsp;<strong><em>West Side Story<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; With&nbsp;<strong>Steven Spielberg&nbsp;<\/strong>poised to shoot a remake next year, Rita has joined the cast and will be playing Valentina.&nbsp; If you don\u2019t remember her, you ain\u2019t alone \u2013 the character didn\u2019t exist.&nbsp; Valentina is actually based on the original character of Doc, who was Tony\u2019s boss at the corner store.&nbsp; By the by, Moreno will also be one of the executive producers of the flick!&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Felicidades<\/em>!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever said you can never go home again never met&nbsp;Rita Moreno.&nbsp; The 86-year-old&nbsp;EGOT&nbsp;winner is having a third act that rivals her first two.&nbsp; Not only is she enjoying major success on the&nbsp;Netflix&nbsp;reboot of&nbsp;One Day at a Time, but she\u2019s returning to her roots.&nbsp; As you know, Moreno won her&nbsp;Oscar&nbsp;playing Anita in the film version of&nbsp;West<\/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-4489","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\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}