{"id":52184,"date":"2021-04-11T21:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=52184"},"modified":"2021-04-11T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:28:52","slug":"the-talk-plot-thickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/the-talk-plot-thickens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talk Plot Thickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My previous coverage of <strong><em>The Talk<\/em><\/strong> kerfuffle should have left no question as to where my loyalties lie.&nbsp; But lest my opinion be too subtle, let me clarify \u2013 there was clearly a concentrated campaign to oust <strong>Sharon Osbourne<\/strong>.&nbsp; When asked on her podcast if Sharon has reached out to her since the dust-up, <strong>Sheryl <\/strong>said, \u201cNo\u201d.&nbsp; And that\u2019s a lie.&nbsp; Osbourne released screenshots of two messages she sent to Underwood \u2013 one the day after the incident, and one a few days after that.&nbsp; \u201cI not only sent these messages to Sheryl but I apologized to her in person in her dressing room.&nbsp; Why are you saying I never apologized Sheryl?&nbsp; What are you trying to do to me?&nbsp; Why are you trying to destroy my reputation?\u201d asked Sharon.&nbsp; Why indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My previous coverage of The Talk kerfuffle should have left no question as to where my loyalties lie.&nbsp; But lest my opinion be too subtle, let me clarify \u2013 there was clearly a concentrated campaign to oust Sharon Osbourne.&nbsp; When asked on her podcast if Sharon has reached out to her since the dust-up, Sheryl<\/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-52184","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\/52184","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=52184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52186,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52184\/revisions\/52186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}