{"id":5808,"date":"2019-12-16T04:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2019-12-16T04:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:26:37","slug":"hallmark-flip-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/hallmark-flip-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark Flip-Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked about featuring LGBTQ+ content, <em>Hallmark Channel <\/em>CEO <strong>Bill Abbott <\/strong>said, \u201cWe\u2019re open to really any type of movie of any type of relationship in any space.&nbsp; We are always encouraging people to bring us stories across the board.&nbsp; It\u2019s certainly something that we do discuss consistently with our team and with our talent and with the agencies.\u201d&nbsp; Of course, this makes sense for a network that continuously runs episodes of <strong><em>The Golden Girls<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; However, the statement outraged conservative fans of programs starring the pious <strong>Candace Cameron Bure <\/strong>and the soon-to-be incarcerated <strong>Lori Loughlin<\/strong>.&nbsp; Then came a proposed boycott from <em>One Million Moms<\/em>, a grassroots organization that presumably has one million-plus moms (I don\u2019t have my abacus handy, but if they say 1 in 10 people are gay, then there\u2019s a pretty good chance I slept with a baker\u2019s dozen of those one million moms\u2019 sons).&nbsp; The moms were vehemently opposed to commercials with lesbian couples promoting <strong><em>Zola<\/em><\/strong>, a wedding planning website.&nbsp; The network killed the commercials, saying they don\u2019t accept ads that \u201care deemed controversial\u201d.&nbsp; A spokesperson went so far as to say that two brides kissing violated the channel\u2019s policy against \u201cpublic displays of affection\u201d \u2013 ironic coming from a network where virtually every movie is about a girl sleeping with both her capitalistic big-city boyfriend and her hometown childhood sweetheart who is trying to save a Christmas tree farm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BREAKING NEWS <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 just before we published this column, the network\u2019s parent company, <em>Hallmark Cards<\/em>, reversed the decision to pull the commercials in question.&nbsp; \u201cWe are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused,\u201d said president and CEO <strong>Mike Perry<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cAcross our brand, we will continue to look for ways to be more inclusive and celebrate our differences.\u201d&nbsp; It\u2019s a Christmas miracle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked about featuring LGBTQ+ content, Hallmark Channel CEO Bill Abbott said, \u201cWe\u2019re open to really any type of movie of any type of relationship in any space.&nbsp; We are always encouraging people to bring us stories across the board.&nbsp; It\u2019s certainly something that we do discuss consistently with our team and with our talent<\/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-5808","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\/5808","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=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}