{"id":649,"date":"2015-01-19T02:32:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T10:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=649"},"modified":"2015-01-19T02:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T10:38:34","slug":"raven-symone-i-was-too-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/raven-symone-i-was-too-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Raven-Symon\u00e9 &#8211; I was too light!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, Graham Norton discussed how difficult it is for gay men to find love. His analogy reminded me of a line in The Boondocks (don&#8217;t ask): &#8220;a black woman of a certain age is more likely to die in a tanning salon fire than find true love&#8221;. This tied in with a revelation from our own Raven-Symon\u00e9. She said that in order to appear &#8220;blacker&#8221; while shooting her show That&#8217;s So Raven, she used to go to a tanning salon three and four times a week. And that, dear readers, is how Graham Norton is like a black woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, Graham Norton discussed how difficult it is for gay men to find love. His analogy reminded me of a line in The Boondocks (don&#8217;t ask): &#8220;a black woman of a certain age is more likely to die in a tanning salon fire than find true love&#8221;. This tied in with a<\/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":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","category-column"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}