{"id":22801,"date":"2023-06-16T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22801"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:39:56","slug":"just-sayin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/just-sayin\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Sayin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e9e9e9&amp;d=pm_summerguide_2023&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=48&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Interview with <span class=\"s1\"><b>Jay Pharoah &#8211; <\/b><\/span>The stand-up comedian, actor, and Saturday Night Live star on his new projects and two upcoming stops on the Maine <span class=\"s2\">coast. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p4\">by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">You picked the perfect time to come up here, August 19 in Portland and August 20 in Bar Harbor. Ever been to Maine before?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Yeah, it\u2019s got a really cool, laid-back, hipster vibe to it. I love it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">When was that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">I watched you in Spinning Gold last night. \u201cLeaving on the midnight train to\u2026Houston\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Yeah, Houston would never have worked. It was only right [to change it to Georgia].<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">In Spinning Gold you play record-industry pioneer Cecil Holmes, whose first big success was promoting the song \u201cMustang Sally,\u201d after Aretha Franklin suggested changing it from \u201cMustang Mama.\u201d Cecil is a kind of conscience in the film. When Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart\u2019s deals get too wild, they cut to you for a reality check.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Just-Sayin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Just-Sayin.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Just-Sayin-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Just-Sayin-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Just-Sayin-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Just-Sayin-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Jay Pharoah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1276],"class_list":["post-22801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-summerguide-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22878,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801\/revisions\/22878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}