{"id":149890,"date":"2020-06-27T03:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/27\/the-simpsons-stops-using-white-actors-to-voice-non-white-characters\/"},"modified":"2020-06-27T03:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:39:07","slug":"the-simpsons-stops-using-white-actors-to-voice-non-white-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149890","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons stops using white actors to voice non-white characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes amid widespread reckoning for American pop culture following mass protests after George Floyd\u2019s deathThe Simpsons is ending the use of white actors to voice characters of colour, the show\u2019s producers have said.\u201cMoving forward, \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,\u201d they said in a statement on Friday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jun\/27\/the-simpsons-stops-using-white-actors-to-voice-non-white-characters\" target=\"_blank\">The Simpsons stops using white actors to voice non-white characters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes amid widespread reckoning for American pop culture following mass protests after George Floyd\u2019s deathThe Simpsons is ending the use of white actors to voice characters of colour, the show\u2019s producers have said.\u201cMoving forward, \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,\u201d they said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}