{"id":57239,"date":"2016-01-25T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57239"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T04:46:41","slug":"messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57239","title":{"rendered":"Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Sharpton is upset the Oscars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/oscar-nominations-al-sharpton-criticizes-855824\">didn\u2019t recognize a Black actor<\/a>.\u00a0 It makes the awards \u201cfraudulent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For crying out loud, how dense are they?\u00a0 There\u2019s an award for every category down to Junior Lunch Caterer\u2019s Assistant, why not add one more?<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s be blatant and clear about it \u2013 this is not an award for excellence, those awards went to Best Actors.\u00a0 This is an award to shut up critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies and Gentlemen, this year, the \u2018Token Award for Black Actor\u2019 goes to . . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about &#8220;sending messages&#8221;. `<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Al Sharpton is upset the Oscars didn\u2019t recognize a Black actor.\u00a0 It makes the awards \u201cfraudulent.\u201d For crying out loud, how dense are they?\u00a0 There\u2019s an award for every category down to Junior Lunch Caterer\u2019s Assistant, why not add one more? And let\u2019s be blatant and clear about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57240,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57239\/revisions\/57240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}