{"id":90727,"date":"2014-10-11T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90727"},"modified":"2014-10-11T07:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T11:53:33","slug":"i-had-known-creator-jill-soloway-for-years-we-did-chicago-theater-at-the-same-time-so-i-was-able-to-speak-to-jill-i-dont-mince-words-but-i-try-to-work-as-best-as-a-i-can-through-a-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90727","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;But at that point in my life, I was done playing transgender characters in the hospital, going to the hospital. I was done wearing the gown!&#8221; &#8211; Alexandra Billings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful interview (it made me cry, dammit!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/tvandradioblog\/2014\/oct\/10\/-sp-alexandra-billings-transgender-actor-transparent\" target=\"_blank\">with Alex Billings on her role as Davina in <i>Transparent<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As she mentions in the interview, she does work &#8220;through a lens of kindness.&#8221; In every aspect of her life. It&#8217;s such a wonderful feeling to watch a friend be celebrated like what is happening with her right now. You just feel like \u2026 &#8220;Yes. This is so right. So well-deserved. Couldn&#8217;t happen to a better dame.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful interview (it made me cry, dammit!) with Alex Billings on her role as Davina in Transparent. As she mentions in the interview, she does work &#8220;through a lens of kindness.&#8221; In every aspect of her life. It&#8217;s such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,31],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90727"}],"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=90727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90727\/revisions\/90733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}