{"id":1131,"date":"2006-01-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2006\/01\/05\/fine-then-ill-watch-the-oscars-this-year\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T16:59:00","slug":"fine-then-ill-watch-the-oscars-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/05\/fine-then-ill-watch-the-oscars-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine then, I&rsquo;ll watch the Oscars this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jon Stewart, the Emmy-winning host and co-writer of Comedy Central&rsquo;s mock newscast &laquo; The Daily Show, &raquo; today will be named host of the 78th Annual Academy Awards, three sources familiar with the selection process said Wednesday, ending months of speculation about the show&rsquo;s next emcee. <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s expected that Stewart will take at least one week off from &laquo; The Daily Show &raquo; to prepare for the Oscars, and that some of show&rsquo;s writers will help write jokes and other material. The awards will be presented March 5 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/theenvelope.latimes.com\/awards\/oscars\/env-fi-oscar5jan05,0,6929663.story?track=widget\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/funjoel.blogspot.com\/\">Fun Joel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart, the Emmy-winning host and co-writer of Comedy Central&rsquo;s mock newscast &laquo; The Daily Show, &raquo; today will be named host of the 78th Annual Academy Awards, three sources familiar with the selection process said Wednesday, ending months of speculation about the show&rsquo;s next emcee. It&rsquo;s expected that Stewart will take at least one&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/05\/fine-then-ill-watch-the-oscars-this-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fine then, I&rsquo;ll watch the Oscars this year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}