{"id":5719,"date":"2019-12-09T03:20:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2019-12-09T03:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:20:42","slug":"billy-and-the-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/12\/09\/billy-and-the-nutcracker\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy and the Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my brief stay in Florida, I had to dash to Los Angeles to co-host <strong><em>Sidebar with John Duran<\/em><\/strong> on <em>Channel Q Radio<\/em>, which is syndicated around the country (you can hear the show <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/sidebar-with-john-duran\/sidebar-with-john-duran-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).&nbsp; The good thing about when I host something is I bring my own guests.&nbsp; I booked <strong>Jenifer Lewis<\/strong>, since she was appearing in <strong>Debbie Allen<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>Hot Chocolate Nutcracker<\/em><\/strong> gala the following night.&nbsp; And what a night it was.&nbsp; <strong>Shonda Rhimes <\/strong>donated a building to the <em>Debbie Allen Dance Academy<\/em>!&nbsp; And I learned that <strong>Berry Gordy <\/strong>gave Debbie the first $50K to get started.&nbsp; As to the show, there was never such a <em>Nutcracker<\/em>.&nbsp; Over 200 gorgeous kids danced, sang, and acted their tails off.&nbsp; And speaking of tails, Jenifer Lewis played a rat!&nbsp; We were joined backstage by the young and restless <strong>Shemar Moore<\/strong>, who has a pretty hot tail himself.&nbsp; You must check out the photos at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my brief stay in Florida, I had to dash to Los Angeles to co-host Sidebar with John Duran on Channel Q Radio, which is syndicated around the country (you can hear the show here).&nbsp; The good thing about when I host something is I bring my own guests.&nbsp; I booked Jenifer Lewis, since she<\/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-5719","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\/5719","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=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5728,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}