{"id":5306,"date":"2019-09-02T02:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2019-09-02T02:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:09:24","slug":"travolta-latest-faux-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/02\/travolta-latest-faux-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"Travolta Latest Faux Pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Travolta&nbsp;<\/strong>should never, ever be a presenter on a live award show.&nbsp; At the&nbsp;<strong><em>MTV Video Music Awards&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>last week, Travolta and&nbsp;<strong>Queen Latifah&nbsp;<\/strong>were presenting \u201cVideo of the Year\u201d.&nbsp; Sidebar \u2013 am I the only person who found the coupling of Travolta and Latifah, well, \u201ccurious\u201d?&nbsp; Travolta, knowing his penchant for malaprops, handed the envelope to Latifah quipping, \u201cI shouldn\u2019t do this because I\u2019ll just mispronounce shit and fuck it up.\u201d&nbsp; Latifah announced&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Swift&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 an easy name to say.&nbsp; Travolta assumed the role of&nbsp;<em>Miss Golden Globes&nbsp;<\/em>and presented Swift with the statue.&nbsp; But, wait\u2026that wasn\u2019t Taylor Swift.&nbsp; He actually handed the award to&nbsp;<strong>Jade Jolie&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 a drag queen who appears in Swift\u2019s video \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d, which is a pro-LGBTQ anthem.&nbsp; Sidebar again \u2013 am I the only one who notes the irony of having Queen Latifah and John Travolta give an award to a video which encourages people to come out?&nbsp; Anyhoo,&nbsp;<strong>Todrick Hall&nbsp;<\/strong>(who produced the video) says that he spoke with Taylor backstage and they laughed, and laughed, and laughed.&nbsp; In a related story,&nbsp;<strong>Gigi Hadid&nbsp;<\/strong>(someone who I still really don\u2019t have a clue) also once confused Jade Jolie with Taylor Swift.&nbsp; It\u2019s an epidemic!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Travolta&nbsp;should never, ever be a presenter on a live award show.&nbsp; At the&nbsp;MTV Video Music Awards&nbsp;last week, Travolta and&nbsp;Queen Latifah&nbsp;were presenting \u201cVideo of the Year\u201d.&nbsp; Sidebar \u2013 am I the only person who found the coupling of Travolta and Latifah, well, \u201ccurious\u201d?&nbsp; Travolta, knowing his penchant for malaprops, handed the envelope to Latifah quipping,<\/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-5306","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\/5306","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=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}