{"id":33012,"date":"2019-02-24T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33012"},"modified":"2019-02-24T00:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T00:27:10","slug":"scandals-plague-2019-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33012","title":{"rendered":"Scandals plague 2019 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"70.2513181019\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/oscars.html\">Oscars<\/a> are just a few days away, but the biggest night in Hollywood is already shrouded in controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy announced plans to introduce a &#8220;Best Popular Film&#8221; category and give out technical awards during commercial breaks, but was forced to reverse course on both decisions. Additionally, the show is without a host after actor and comedian Kevin Hart dropped out when a series of homophobic tweets from several years ago emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The show must go on, but the Academy does not seem to know which way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rob Reynolds reports from Hollywood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscars are just a few days away, but the biggest night in Hollywood is already shrouded in controversy. The Academy announced plans to introduce a &#8220;Best Popular Film&#8221; category and give out technical awards during commercial breaks, but was forced to reverse course on both decisions. Additionally, the show is without a host after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}