{"id":809,"date":"2015-03-16T02:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T09:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=809"},"modified":"2015-03-16T02:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T09:56:27","slug":"which-movie-star-does-michelle-obama-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/which-movie-star-does-michelle-obama-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Which movie star does Michelle Obama look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile on <em>Univision<\/em>, openly gay style reporter <strong>Rodner Figueroa <\/strong>made what would be a <em>faux pas <\/em>in any language: &#8220;You all know that <strong>Michelle Obama <\/strong>looks like she&#8217;s from the movie <strong><em>Planet of the Apes<\/em><\/strong>!&#8221;\u00a0 And <em>E! <\/em>got into a tizzy over <strong>Giuliana <\/strong>and <strong>Zendaya<\/strong>!!\u00a0 Needless to say, the White House didn&#8217;t find this amusing.\u00a0 Within hours, Mr. Figueroa was fired and issued a statement: &#8220;I am embarrassed, I ask forgiveness, because there is no excuse for a professional like me to make comments like this that can be misinterpreted as offensive and racist during such a volatile time in our country.&#8221;\u00a0 What exactly was misconstrued?\u00a0 It seems clear to me that he said Michelle looked like an ape.\u00a0 Unless he meant she looked like <strong>Charlton Heston<\/strong>, which is even worse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile on Univision, openly gay style reporter Rodner Figueroa made what would be a faux pas in any language: &#8220;You all know that Michelle Obama looks like she&#8217;s from the movie Planet of the Apes!&#8221;\u00a0 And E! got into a tizzy over Giuliana and Zendaya!!\u00a0 Needless to say, the White House didn&#8217;t find this amusing.\u00a0<\/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-809","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\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}