{"id":185562,"date":"2026-03-01T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=185562"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:31:25","slug":"substack-jensen-ackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=185562","title":{"rendered":"“I just love telling stories. That\u2019s what we do and it\u2019s a good business to be in, especially if you know you have talent.” –Jensen Ackles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt’s his birthday today. I’ve written so much about him. My Supernatural re-caps are filled with tributes\/explorations to his talent. He has no flaws as an actor. This is so rare. He can do anything. And he is lucky to have found a role where he could express ALL of himself, not just one or two aspects. He could include everything. <\/p>\n

I wrote a piece praising his old-school brand of acting – the persona-essence movie star stuff – in all its subtletities and broad strokes. Not everyone can do it. <\/p>\n

Jensen Ackles: The Beauty, the Burlesque, the Schtick, and the Erotic-Muse Reality Distortion Field<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s his birthday today. I’ve written so much about him. My Supernatural re-caps are filled with tributes\/explorations to his talent. He has no flaws as an actor. This is so rare. He can do anything. And he is lucky to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,39,31],"tags":[2262,2739,2263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190669,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185562\/revisions\/190669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}