{"id":2909,"date":"2019-02-10T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T07:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2019-02-08T08:01:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T08:01:47","slug":"dwayne-johnson-reveals-he-was-the-first-choice-to-host-oscars-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/dwayne-johnson-reveals-he-was-the-first-choice-to-host-oscars-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson reveals he was the first choice to host Oscars this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne Johnson has revealed that he was the first choice of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to host the upcoming Oscars ceremony.<br \/>\n\u201cAh mahalo dude, I was their first choice to host this year, and my goal was to make it the most fun and entertaining Oscars ever. We all tried hard, but couldn\u2019t make it work since I\u2019m shooting Jumanji,\u201d the actor wrote.<br \/>\n\u201cAcademy and I were super bummed but maybe one day down the road,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fe5-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fe5-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fe5.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne Johnson reveals he was the first choice to host Oscars this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne Johnson has revealed that he was the first choice of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to host the upcoming Oscars ceremony. \u201cAh mahalo dude, I was their first choice to host this year, and my goal was to make it the most fun and entertaining Oscars ever. We all tried &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[5012,5014,2572,5011,5010,2570,5015,5017,5013,5016],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-academy-of-motion-pictures-arts-and-sciences-ampas","tag-ah-mahalo-dude","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-first-choice","tag-host-oscars-this-year","tag-jumanji","tag-most-fun-and-entertaining","tag-super-bummed-but","tag-upcoming-oscars-ceremony","tag-the-actor-wrote"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}