{"id":4623,"date":"2019-01-14T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T08:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2019-01-14T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T08:09:29","slug":"criss-is-filipino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/criss-is-filipino\/","title":{"rendered":"Criss is Filipino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days before the&nbsp;<em>Globes<\/em>,&nbsp;<strong>Darren Criss&nbsp;<\/strong>talked about how he will no longer play gay roles.&nbsp; \u201cI want to make sure I won\u2019t be another straight boy taking a gay man\u2019s role,\u201d says the 31-year-old.&nbsp; However, fellow&nbsp;<em>Golden Globe&nbsp;<\/em>winner&nbsp;<strong>Ben Whishaw&nbsp;<\/strong>said, \u201cI think there needs to be greater equality.&nbsp; I would like to see more gay actors playing straight roles.\u201d&nbsp; So, riddle me this \u2013 if gay actors are playing the gay roles AND the straight roles, what on Earth will Darren Criss do for a living?&nbsp; On second thought, don\u2019t answer that.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one who didn\u2019t know Darren is Filipino?&nbsp; He proclaimed himself the first Filipino-American to win a&nbsp;<em>Golden Globe<\/em>.&nbsp; Is that true?&nbsp; Has someone done genetic testing on all previous winners?&nbsp; Are the&nbsp;<em>Golden Globes&nbsp;<\/em>in bed with&nbsp;<strong><u>Ancestry.com<\/u><\/strong>?&nbsp; Perhaps, like gays, Criss is the first OPENLY Filipino-American to win a&nbsp;<em>Golden Globe<\/em>.&nbsp; Turns out&nbsp;<strong>Andrew Cunanan&nbsp;<\/strong>was Filipino-American, so maybe it\u2019s a win\/win.&nbsp; But I\u2019ll have to run this by Whishaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days before the&nbsp;Globes,&nbsp;Darren Criss&nbsp;talked about how he will no longer play gay roles.&nbsp; \u201cI want to make sure I won\u2019t be another straight boy taking a gay man\u2019s role,\u201d says the 31-year-old.&nbsp; However, fellow&nbsp;Golden Globe&nbsp;winner&nbsp;Ben Whishaw&nbsp;said, \u201cI think there needs to be greater equality.&nbsp; I would like to see more gay actors playing straight roles.\u201d&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-4623","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\/4623","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=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}