{"id":5353,"date":"2019-09-23T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2019-09-23T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:22:16","slug":"emmys-make-queer-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/emmys-make-queer-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys Make Queer History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next day, it was time for the&nbsp;<em>Emmys&nbsp;<\/em>themselves.&nbsp; In a word\u2026YAWN!&nbsp; If this is what the new television season is going to look like, I may sit this one out.&nbsp; And, while I enjoy&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Lennon<\/strong>, I absolutely loathed his banal commentary.&nbsp; In fact, halfway through the ceremony, I was rooting for him to fall out of his balcony perch and plummet to his death.&nbsp; And if that sounds harsh, clearly you were amongst the multitude not watching.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to&nbsp;<strong>Billy Porter&nbsp;<\/strong>for his historic win \u2013 the first time an openly gay black man ever won a leading actor&nbsp;<em>Emmy<\/em>.&nbsp; And it came the day after his 50<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;birthday.&nbsp; Happy birthday, from one Billy to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next day, it was time for the&nbsp;Emmys&nbsp;themselves.&nbsp; In a word\u2026YAWN!&nbsp; If this is what the new television season is going to look like, I may sit this one out.&nbsp; And, while I enjoy&nbsp;Thomas Lennon, I absolutely loathed his banal commentary.&nbsp; In fact, halfway through the ceremony, I was rooting for him to fall out<\/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-5353","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\/5353","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=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}