{"id":27328,"date":"2026-10-10T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/manganiello-batman-health-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T19:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:10:35","slug":"manganiello-batman-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/manganiello-batman-health-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manganiello Faced a Serious Health Crisis Just as Ben Affleck\u2019s Batman Role Came His Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span 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href=\"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/manganiello-batman-health-crisis\/#Why_Deathstroke_Mattered_Even_Though_the_Batman_Film_Changed_Course\" >Why Deathstroke Mattered Even Though the Batman Film Changed Course<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/manganiello-batman-health-crisis\/#The_difference_between_a_career_milestone_and_a_finished_film\" >The difference between a career milestone and a finished film<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/manganiello-batman-health-crisis\/#Bloodlines_Reframes_a_Career_Setback_as_a_Fight_for_a_Future\" >Bloodlines Reframes a Career Setback as a Fight for a Future<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/manganiello-batman-health-crisis\/#Memoir_as_a_record_of_ambition_and_uncertainty\" >Memoir as a record of ambition and uncertainty<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Joe_Manganiellos_Health_Crisis_Collided_With_Ben_Afflecks_Deathstroke_Offer\"><\/span>Joe Manganiello\u2019s Health Crisis Collided With Ben Affleck\u2019s Deathstroke Offer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Joe Manganiello, the chance to play Deathstroke in a DC Comics film arrived at a moment when his future as an actor felt profoundly uncertain. As he recounts in his forthcoming memoir, <em>Bloodlines<\/em>, Ben Affleck offered him the part while Manganiello was dealing with a serious illness that had upended his daily life. The opportunity was more than a new credit: it gave him a demanding goal to imagine beyond the hospital room and the immediate struggle to recover.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contrast was startling. A superhero film usually suggests physical confidence, elaborate costumes, and months of preparation; Manganiello was instead facing a health crisis that had caused a dramatic loss of weight and emergency surgery. His former wife, Sofia Vergara, was preparing for the possibility that he might die, while he was trying to picture himself taking on one of the biggest roles of his career. The timing made the offer feel almost unreal.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an excerpt published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/joe-manganiello-disease-ben-affleck-batman-sofia-vergara-memoir-1236724617\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Manganiello describes the role as a motivating prospect during an otherwise terrifying period. He acknowledges that Vergara considered his plan to pursue a physically demanding production \u201cinsane,\u201d and says he understood why. Yet he held on to the possibility of being ready, even when recovery was far from guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_casting_opportunity_that_became_a_personal_target\"><\/span>A casting opportunity that became a personal target<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deathstroke is a formidable adversary associated with Batman, and the part called for a performer who could suggest strength, discipline, and combat experience. Manganiello\u2019s build and screen presence made him an appealing match, but those qualities could not simply be summoned while he was seriously ill. He had to contemplate the distance between his condition at the time and the physical demands he hoped to meet later.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the memoir passage, he frames that distance as a kind of trial by fire: a future production became a concrete point on the horizon. He could not know with certainty whether he would regain his strength or complete the work needed to prepare. Still, imagining a version of himself who could shoot for months gave recovery a direction. The casting opportunity did not erase the crisis; it offered a reason to keep looking beyond it.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That distinction matters. A role can be emotionally powerful without functioning as a cure, and Manganiello\u2019s account does not make a superhero franchise responsible for treating illness. Instead, the offer provided a goal at a time when ordinary plans had been replaced by urgent medical concerns. The actor\u2019s own words, as relayed in coverage of the memoir, place hope and fear side by side rather than pretending one instantly defeated the other.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Hollywood, the story also complicates the familiar image of a performer being handed a career-making part at the perfect moment. The opportunity arrived at a moment that was anything but perfect, and accepting it required him to imagine a recovery he had not yet achieved. That tension\u2014between a life-threatening present and a hoped-for professional future\u2014is what makes the casting story more than ordinary superhero-film news.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_2016_Collapse_and_the_Serious_Illness_Behind_the_Story\"><\/span>The 2016 Collapse and the Serious Illness Behind the Story<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manganiello\u2019s account reaches back to 2016, when he collapsed while working on <em>Six<\/em>, a military drama series. At 39, he had already established himself as Alcide Herveaux on HBO\u2019s <em>True Blood<\/em> and appeared as Big Dick Richie in Steven Soderbergh\u2019s <em>Magic Mike<\/em>. The collapse abruptly shifted the focus from career momentum to an unexplained medical emergency, a change that left both his personal and professional plans in limbo.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The illness was described as an autoimmune condition whose effects involved his thyroid and intestines. According to the details shared around <em>Bloodlines<\/em>, his weight fell from approximately 235 pounds to 176. That substantial change was not a makeover for a role or a deliberate fitness transformation; it was part of a serious health crisis that required urgent medical attention and made the prospect of returning to physically demanding work difficult to picture.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports based on his account describe a severe deterioration in his large intestine, which doctors removed during emergency surgery. Manganiello later characterized the organ as having become infected and dangerously close to rupturing. The medical crisis therefore involved more than fatigue or a short interruption to filming: it included a major operation and a long period of uncertainty about how his body would function afterward.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_work_and_health_stop_following_a_predictable_schedule\"><\/span>When work and health stop following a predictable schedule<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entertainment careers often rely on tightly planned production calendars. A performer may be expected to train, travel, rehearse, and sustain long shooting days, with each commitment built around the assumption that the body will cooperate. Manganiello\u2019s experience shows how quickly that assumption can collapse. A production set can become the place where a hidden problem becomes impossible to ignore, and a new project may arrive before the person has any reliable picture of recovery.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is especially relevant to a superhero production, where physical preparation is usually visible to audiences and central to a character\u2019s identity. Deathstroke\u2019s imposing appearance could not be separated from the work required to portray him. Manganiello was not simply deciding whether he liked a script; he was confronting whether his recovering body could eventually meet the demands of the part.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coverage of his revelations has emphasized both the length and severity of the experience. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/joe-manganiello-reveals-7-year-battle-with-autoimmune-disease-that-nearly-killed-him-exclusive-12154936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s report on his autoimmune-disease battle<\/a> describes a prolonged struggle that he says brought him close to death. Such accounts should be understood as his personal medical history, not as a universal description of autoimmune disease, which can affect different people in very different ways.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The collapse:<\/strong> Manganiello became seriously unwell while filming <em>Six<\/em> in 2016.<\/li><li><strong>The physical impact:<\/strong> His reported weight dropped from 235 pounds to 176 as the illness affected his body.<\/li><li><strong>The emergency:<\/strong> Doctors removed his large intestine after a dangerous deterioration.<\/li><li><strong>The professional crossroads:<\/strong> Affleck\u2019s Deathstroke offer arrived while recovery remained uncertain.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sequence gives context to the casting story: the role did not arrive after the danger had passed, but while the actor was still trying to understand what his future would look like. The collapse marked the moment when a promising career had to make room for survival.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"is-provider-youtube is-type-video wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Manganiello Reveals Epic Ben Affleck Batman Story, And More (My Thoughts) :)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aikWlOevptg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Emergency_Surgery_an_Ostomy_Bag_and_the_Road_Back\"><\/span>Emergency Surgery, an Ostomy Bag, and the Road Back<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The surgery Manganiello describes was not a minor detour between jobs. Removing the large intestine changed the practical realities of his recovery and meant he had to adapt to an ostomy bag while his body healed. For someone whose public image had long included an imposing physique, the adjustment also carried an obvious emotional dimension: the body that audiences recognized had become the site of an intense and private medical struggle.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has recalled wearing the ostomy bag while trying on the Deathstroke costume. That image brings the parallel between illness and performance into sharp focus. The costume represented a character built around force and control, while the bag was a visible reminder that Manganiello was still navigating the consequences of emergency surgery. Trying on the outfit did not mean he was already ready to film; it meant he was willing to picture a possible return.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Preparing_for_a_role_before_recovery_was_assured\"><\/span>Preparing for a role before recovery was assured<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manganiello wrote that he told himself he would regain the weight he had lost, have his digestive system reconnected, and eventually no longer need the bag. Those were hopes and targets, not evidence that the medical outcome was guaranteed. The distinction is important because it preserves the real stakes of his story: at the time, he was dealing with an uncertain recovery, rather than following a neat motivational script in which determination immediately solves a serious illness.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The practical challenge of preparing for Deathstroke was considerable. A performer returning from major surgery may have to rebuild stamina gradually, regain strength, and coordinate physical work with medical care. A superhero production, by contrast, can require sustained training and long days on set. Manganiello\u2019s imagined timeline\u2014being able to handle the demands of a six-month shoot a year later\u2014gave him a milestone to reach for, even though the outcome was not something he could simply will into existence.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His story also offers a useful counterpoint to the way Hollywood sells transformation. Film marketing often presents physical change as a clean montage: training, discipline, and a reveal under dramatic lighting. Manganiello\u2019s experience involved surgery, a major digestive-system change, and the uncertainty of recovering from a life-threatening condition. The difference is not cosmetic. One is a performance narrative designed for the screen; the other is a medical reality that cannot be reduced to a training sequence.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In accounts of the memoir, the Deathstroke costume functions as a vivid object connecting those worlds. It stood for a future project but did not conceal the present reality underneath it. Wearing it while living with an ostomy bag made the ambition tangible without making the illness disappear. That is why the moment resonates: it presents recovery not as a polished before-and-after reveal, but as an unfinished process unfolding alongside hope.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readers seeking more context on the medical disclosure can compare <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/joe-manganiello-reveals-health-battle-organ-removal-12004858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly\u2019s coverage of the organ removal<\/a> with the actor\u2019s own account in <em>Bloodlines<\/em>. The crucial point is not that a role replaced medical care, but that a concrete professional goal helped him imagine a life beyond the immediate crisis. For Manganiello, trying on the costume was a small act of looking forward.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Deathstroke_Mattered_Even_Though_the_Batman_Film_Changed_Course\"><\/span>Why Deathstroke Mattered Even Though the Batman Film Changed Course<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The casting offer was tied to Ben Affleck\u2019s planned Batman film, in which Deathstroke was expected to serve as a major antagonist. That project did not ultimately reach the screen in the form originally envisioned, making Manganiello\u2019s casting story an unusual Hollywood footnote: the opportunity had enormous emotional importance to him even though audiences never saw the completed performance in that version of the DC Comics universe.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For viewers, an unmade film can be difficult to separate from its publicity. A character may be announced, teased, or discussed for years, only for a studio\u2019s plans to shift as scripts, leadership, and franchise strategies change. Manganiello\u2019s experience reminds readers that an abandoned project can still have a real effect on the person who was offered the role. The production\u2019s eventual fate does not erase what the possibility meant during his recovery.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_difference_between_a_career_milestone_and_a_finished_film\"><\/span>The difference between a career milestone and a finished film<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deathstroke is a tactician and combatant whose history places him among DC\u2019s most formidable antagonists. Pairing him with Batman would have given the actor a high-profile entrance into a franchise built around globally recognized characters. For Manganiello, the part offered the scale of a career milestone: a character with physical intensity, strong visual identity, and room to make an impression in a major studio production.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet a casting offer is not the same as a completed film, and the distinction is essential. The memoir story concerns the moment Affleck offered Manganiello the role and the hope it sparked, not a claim that the planned movie was made as intended. The distinction also explains why the episode can remain meaningful even when the project itself changed. The actor had been given a future to imagine during a time when even ordinary plans were difficult to make.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a performer, a part can influence training, confidence, and the way the next chapter of a career is imagined, even before a camera rolls. Manganiello\u2019s goal was to become capable of meeting the physical demands of the superhero film. That ambition was consequential regardless of whether the eventual Batman project moved forward, because it gave his recovery a purpose that he could picture in specific terms.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The episode also sits within a broader Hollywood pattern: franchise plans are vulnerable to changes in studio priorities, creative direction, and the wider business environment. That can turn highly anticipated roles into unrealized possibilities. In this case, though, the role\u2019s significance was personal before it became a piece of DC Comics history. Its value in the memoir comes from what it represented to Manganiello at a frightening moment, not from a finished sequence or box-office result.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/joe-manganiello-recalls-ben-affleck-offering-him-batman-villian-role-amid-health-scare-12164212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly\u2019s account of Affleck\u2019s offer<\/a> follows that intersection of casting news and private crisis. The Deathstroke story is therefore both a window into a superhero film that never took its original shape and a reminder that a career setback can look different from the inside. An unmade movie may still have helped its would-be star imagine getting well enough to work again.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"is-provider-youtube is-type-video wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Batman: Joe Manganiello Sheds Light on Ben Affleck&amp;apos;s Scrapped Dark Knight Film\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Xe30xrn-Lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bloodlines_Reframes_a_Career_Setback_as_a_Fight_for_a_Future\"><\/span><em>Bloodlines<\/em> Reframes a Career Setback as a Fight for a Future<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With <em>Bloodlines<\/em>, Manganiello is revisiting an episode that joins his public career to a period of private danger. The memoir is scheduled for release on October 13, making the story a central part of the attention around the book. Its force comes from the contrast between familiar entertainment headlines\u2014Batman, Deathstroke, and Ben Affleck\u2014and the far less public realities of surgery, serious illness, and fear.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That contrast can reshape how readers think about a performer\u2019s career setback. A delay in filming or a lost opportunity may appear, from the outside, to be the defining problem. Manganiello\u2019s account suggests that the immediate challenge was much more basic: surviving a health crisis and imagining a future in which his body could again tolerate demanding work. The role became part of that imagined future, but it did not make the underlying struggle simple.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Memoir_as_a_record_of_ambition_and_uncertainty\"><\/span>Memoir as a record of ambition and uncertainty<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A memoir can place a famous moment in a wider personal timeline. The Deathstroke offer might otherwise be remembered as a casting announcement attached to an unrealized Batman project. In Manganiello\u2019s retelling, the offer sits beside Vergara\u2019s fear for him, the emergency surgery, the loss of weight, and the practical adjustments of recovery. It is no longer only a piece of franchise trivia; it becomes a marker of what he was trying to live long enough to do.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That personal framing also keeps the story from turning into a simplistic \u201crole saved actor\u201d narrative. Manganiello has described the casting opportunity as the carrot he needed to keep moving toward a difficult goal, but a motivating idea is not a substitute for treatment, support, or time. The value of the part was that it gave him something to reach toward while those realities remained unavoidable. His account can be uplifting without suggesting that positive thinking alone resolves a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For readers who follow his screen work, the story connects several distinct chapters: Alcide on <em>True Blood<\/em>, the ensemble energy of <em>Magic Mike<\/em>, the demanding television production of <em>Six<\/em>, and the hoped-for transformation into Deathstroke. Those roles call for different styles of performance, yet they all depend on a working actor being physically present. The illness interrupted that continuity and forced him to consider whether he could return to the kind of work that had defined his career.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The broader appeal of the story lies in its refusal to treat ambition and vulnerability as opposites. Manganiello could be frightened, medically fragile, and still eager to pursue a major role. He could also recognize that the plan sounded unrealistic to someone who loved him. Both views could coexist: Vergara\u2019s concern reflected the danger she saw, while his focus on the film gave him a reason to picture life after the crisis.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the memoir reaches readers, the most striking detail may not be the promise of a superhero performance that never happened in its original form. It is the image of an actor trying on a costume while still recovering, using an uncertain future as a point of focus. In that moment, Deathstroke was less a finished Hollywood role than a reminder that the next chapter remained possible.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Moment<\/th>\n<th>What Manganiello has described<\/th>\n<th>Why it matters to the story<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Filming <em>Six<\/em><\/td>\n<td>He collapsed in 2016 during a period of serious illness.<\/td>\n<td>The health crisis interrupted an active career.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Emergency treatment<\/td>\n<td>His large intestine was removed after a dangerous deterioration.<\/td>\n<td>Recovery involved major surgery and significant adjustments.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Affleck\u2019s offer<\/td>\n<td>He was offered Deathstroke for a planned Batman film.<\/td>\n<td>The casting opportunity gave him a future goal to imagine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Costume fitting<\/td>\n<td>He tried on the character\u2019s costume while wearing an ostomy bag.<\/td>\n<td>The moment captured ambition alongside ongoing recovery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Bloodlines<\/em><\/td>\n<td>The memoir recounts the crisis and the offer.<\/td>\n<td>It places the franchise story within a deeply personal account.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Manganiello\u2019s Health Crisis Collided With Ben Affleck\u2019s Deathstroke Offer For Joe Manganiello, the chance to play Deathstroke in a DC Comics film arrived at a moment when his future as an actor felt profoundly uncertain. As he recounts in his forthcoming memoir, Bloodlines, Ben Affleck offered him the part while Manganiello was dealing with &#8230; <a title=\"Joe Manganiello Faced a Serious Health Crisis Just as Ben Affleck\u2019s Batman Role Came His Way\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/manganiello-batman-health-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"En savoir plus sur Joe Manganiello Faced a Serious Health Crisis Just as Ben Affleck\u2019s Batman Role Came His Way\">Lire plus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybingemate.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}