{"id":53927,"date":"2021-04-25T23:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=53927"},"modified":"2021-04-25T23:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:44:04","slug":"the-2021-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/04\/25\/the-2021-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This column is coming out the day after the <strong><em>Oscars <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 or, as I like to call it, <strong><em>The <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Atchison<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>, <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Topeka<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> and the <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Santa Fe<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Am I the only one who was waiting for <strong>Regina King <\/strong>to break into \u201cDon\u2019t Rain on My Parade\u201d?&nbsp; Still, it\u2019s hard to take issue with any show that features <strong>Glenn Close <\/strong>doing \u201cDa Butt\u201d \u2013 even if the bit was scripted within an inch of its life.&nbsp; It\u2019s too early for me to know who got left out of the <em>In Memoriam<\/em> \u2013 aside from my beloved <strong>Tempest Storm<\/strong>, who just passed away last week.&nbsp; Still, I wouldn\u2019t expect the <em>Academy <\/em>to honor the star of <strong><em>Teaserama<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This column is coming out the day after the Oscars \u2013 or, as I like to call it, The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.&nbsp; Am I the only one who was waiting for Regina King to break into \u201cDon\u2019t Rain on My Parade\u201d?&nbsp; Still, it\u2019s hard to take issue with any show that features<\/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-53927","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\/53927","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=53927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53928,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927\/revisions\/53928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}