{"id":63837,"date":"2021-07-18T23:50:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T06:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=63837"},"modified":"2021-07-18T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T06:50:47","slug":"historic-emmys-nods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/07\/18\/historic-emmys-nods\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Emmys Nods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the <strong><em>Emmy <\/em><\/strong>nominations being announced, the <em>Television Academy <\/em>made a minor but significant change \u2013 actors and actresses now have the option to be recognized as \u201cperformer\u201d.&nbsp; Any of the nominees could \u201crequest that their nomination certificate and <em>Emmy <\/em>statuette carry the term \u2018Performer\u2019 in place of \u2018Actor\u2019 or \u2018Actress\u2019.\u201d&nbsp; Try explaining that to people who believe <strong>Jean Smart <\/strong>and <strong>Michael Douglas <\/strong>are in the same category.<\/p>\n<p>With this \u201cwoke\u201d bit of tweaking, the nominations were announced \u2013 and some history was made.&nbsp; <strong>Mj Rodriguez <\/strong>became the first openly transgender woman to be nominated in \u201cBest Lead Actress in a Drama\u201d.&nbsp; Yes, <strong>Laverne Cox <\/strong>was previously nominated as a supporting actress (or \u201cperformer\u201d).&nbsp; And yes, <em>Wikipedia <\/em>tells us that <strong>Rain Valdez <\/strong>got a short-form nomination for something called \u201cRazor Tongue\u201d a while back.&nbsp; By the by, <strong>Bowen Yang <\/strong>also made history as the first \u201cfeatured player\u201d on <strong><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong> to get a nomination.&nbsp; Congrats to all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the Emmy nominations being announced, the Television Academy made a minor but significant change \u2013 actors and actresses now have the option to be recognized as \u201cperformer\u201d.&nbsp; Any of the nominees could \u201crequest that their nomination certificate and Emmy statuette carry the term \u2018Performer\u2019 in place of \u2018Actor\u2019 or \u2018Actress\u2019.\u201d&nbsp; Try explaining that<\/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-63837","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\/63837","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=63837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63838,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63837\/revisions\/63838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}