{"id":333,"date":"2008-12-12T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/12\/hugh-jackman-to-host-oscars.html"},"modified":"2008-12-12T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:21:00","slug":"hugh-jackman-to-host-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman to Host Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081212\/ap_en_ce\/oscar_host_2\">announced<\/a> today that Hugh Jackman will host the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony on February 22, 2009. It&#8217;s a bit of a left-field choice, considering most recent hosts have a background in either stand-up or sketch comedy. However, if his charismatic turns hosting the Tonys in 2003 &amp; 2004 are any indication, I don&#8217;t think viewers have much to worry about. Though one does wonder, does he plan on singing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today that Hugh Jackman will host the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony on February 22, 2009. It&#8217;s a bit of a left-field choice, considering most recent hosts have a background in either stand-up or sketch comedy. However, if his charismatic turns hosting the Tonys in 2003 &amp; 2004 are any indication, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hugh Jackman to Host Oscars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2012,1656],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hugh-jackman","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}