{"id":5130,"date":"2019-06-30T23:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2019-06-30T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:03:51","slug":"dench-likes-bad-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/06\/30\/dench-likes-bad-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Dench Likes Bad Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will not like this next story, so just hold your nose till I get it out.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Judi Dench&nbsp;<\/strong>has once again stood up for people currently seen as pariahs in today\u2019s society.&nbsp; \u201cAre we going to negate 10 years at the&nbsp;<em>Old Vic&nbsp;<\/em>[when&nbsp;<strong>Kevin Spacey&nbsp;<\/strong>was artistic director] and everything that he did \u2013 how wonderful he\u2019s been in all those films?&nbsp; Are we just not going to see all those films that&nbsp;<strong>Harvey&nbsp;<\/strong>[<strong>Weinstein<\/strong>] produced?&nbsp; You cannot deny somebody a talent.&nbsp; You might as well never look at a&nbsp;<strong>Caravaggio&nbsp;<\/strong>painting.&nbsp; You might as well never have gone to see&nbsp;<strong>Noel Coward<\/strong>.\u201d&nbsp; This brings up the age-old controversy \u2013 can one separate the art from the artist?&nbsp; If nothing else, one must admire Dench\u2019s loyalty\u2026through thick and thin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will not like this next story, so just hold your nose till I get it out.&nbsp;&nbsp;Judi Dench&nbsp;has once again stood up for people currently seen as pariahs in today\u2019s society.&nbsp; \u201cAre we going to negate 10 years at the&nbsp;Old Vic&nbsp;[when&nbsp;Kevin Spacey&nbsp;was artistic director] and everything that he did \u2013 how wonderful he\u2019s<\/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-5130","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\/5130","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=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}