{"id":4971,"date":"2019-05-06T00:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T07:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2019-05-06T00:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T07:38:40","slug":"smolletts-night-terrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/smolletts-night-terrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Smollett&#8217;s Night Terrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve avoided it as long as I could \u2013 back to&nbsp;<strong>Jussie Smollett<\/strong>.&nbsp; Do you want me to start with the good news or the bad news?&nbsp; OK, the good news is that Jussie will no longer have to commute back and forth to Chicago \u2013 a city he\u2019s not particularly welcomed in.&nbsp; While&nbsp;<em>FOX<\/em>&nbsp;renewed&nbsp;<strong><em>Empire<\/em><\/strong>, there are no plans for Jussie to return to the show.&nbsp; But it\u2019s not all bleak for Smollett.&nbsp; The network did extend his contract through next season \u2013 while also saying there are no plans for him to appear in any episodes.&nbsp; Sigh, why can\u2019t I get a job where someone pays me to stay home?<\/p>\n<p>Lest you think Smollett\u2019s troubles are behind him, a judge has subpoenaed prosecutor&nbsp;<strong>Kim Foxx&nbsp;<\/strong>in regard to how she handled the case \u2013 specifically, why she dropped all charges against Jussie (something we\u2019re all wondering).&nbsp; Meanwhile, the actor\u2019s brother has revealed Jussie is having trouble sleeping due to \u201cnight terrors\u201d.&nbsp; You know what might help?&nbsp; A brisk 2AM stroll to his local&nbsp;<em>Subway&nbsp;<\/em>sandwich shop!<\/p>\n<p>Taking a break from all the&nbsp;<em>Empire<\/em>&nbsp;drama, creator&nbsp;<strong>Lee Daniels&nbsp;<\/strong>revealed some details about his gay superhero flick to&nbsp;<em>CNN<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Van Jones<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s true!&nbsp; It\u2019s called&nbsp;<strong><em>Superbitch<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I found him on&nbsp;<em>Instagram&nbsp;<\/em>of all places.&nbsp; He does back flips and he has a cape and he does karate and, oh my God, he\u2019s going to be a hero.&nbsp; I\u2019m not putting that much money behind it\u2026a couple million dollars for a gay superhero movie is pretty f\u2014king exciting.\u201d&nbsp; Jones replied, \u201cWith a name like&nbsp;<em>Superbitch<\/em>, you ain\u2019t gotta promote it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve avoided it as long as I could \u2013 back to&nbsp;Jussie Smollett.&nbsp; Do you want me to start with the good news or the bad news?&nbsp; OK, the good news is that Jussie will no longer have to commute back and forth to Chicago \u2013 a city he\u2019s not particularly welcomed in.&nbsp; While&nbsp;FOX&nbsp;renewed&nbsp;Empire, there are<\/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-4971","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\/4971","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=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}