{"id":5110,"date":"2019-06-24T01:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2019-06-24T01:27:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:27:25","slug":"more-bad-news-for-jussie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/06\/24\/more-bad-news-for-jussie\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bad News for Jussie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention&nbsp;<strong>Jussie Smollett<\/strong>\u2019s recent birthday.&nbsp; He took to social media to say, \u201cGrateful for LOVE.&nbsp; Grateful for y\u2019all.&nbsp; Grateful for another year around the sun.\u201d&nbsp; Alas, he\u2019s not getting much love from Chicago.&nbsp; On Jussie\u2019s birthday,&nbsp;<strong>Judge Michael Toomin&nbsp;<\/strong>called for a special prosecutor to examine the entire Smollett \u201cincident\u201d, including how it was handled by authorities.&nbsp; Toomin specifically targeted Jussie: \u201cIn perhaps the most prominent display of his acting potential, Smollett conceived a fantasy that propelled him from the role of a sympathetic victim of a vicious homophobic attack to that of a charlatan who fermented a hoax the equal of any twisted television intrigue.\u201d&nbsp; I\u2019m not sure, but I think that was a compliment to Jussie as an actor.&nbsp; Judge Toomin added that a special prosecutor was needed \u201cto restore the public\u2019s confidence in our criminal justice system\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention&nbsp;Jussie Smollett\u2019s recent birthday.&nbsp; He took to social media to say, \u201cGrateful for LOVE.&nbsp; Grateful for y\u2019all.&nbsp; Grateful for another year around the sun.\u201d&nbsp; Alas, he\u2019s not getting much love from Chicago.&nbsp; On Jussie\u2019s birthday,&nbsp;Judge Michael Toomin&nbsp;called for a special prosecutor to examine the entire Smollett \u201cincident\u201d, including how<\/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-5110","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\/5110","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=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5111,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}