{"id":190921,"date":"2018-11-24T01:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T06:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=190921"},"modified":"2018-11-24T01:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T06:50:17","slug":"bodied-battles-to-be-more-than-just-a-rap-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/24\/bodied-battles-to-be-more-than-just-a-rap-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bodied&#8217; battles to be more than just a rap movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_190922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190922\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Calum_Worthy_in_2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190922\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Calum_Worthy_in_2017.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Calum_Worthy_in_2017.png 340w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Calum_Worthy_in_2017-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He says he wants to be an actor until he&#8217;s 80 and doesn&#8217;t want to be typecast. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65078765\">File Photo By Valder Beebe Show\/Wikimedia <\/a>commons<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65078765\">, CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; On the surface, the new film \u201cBodied\u201d may not seem like the right fit for an actor known for being on the Disney Channel.<\/p>\n<p>But for Calum Worthy, it couldn&#8217;t be more perfect.<\/p>\n<p>He says he wants to be an actor until he&#8217;s 80 and doesn&#8217;t want to be typecast.<\/p>\n<p>The Joseph Kahn-directed \u201cBodied\u201d is about a University of California graduate student, played by Worthy, who becomes entrenched in battle rap after using the genre as his thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Eminem serves as a producer.<\/p>\n<p>The world of battle rap is a far cry from the world of political correctness, with profanity and obscene insults often thrown at the opponent, in the name of sport and with the hope of winning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; On the surface, the new film \u201cBodied\u201d may not seem like the right fit for an actor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":190922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-gary-gerard-hamilton","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}