{"id":214,"date":"2014-01-16T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/man-with-kent-ties-nominated-for-academy-award-for-his-screenplay\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:15:29","slug":"man-with-kent-ties-nominated-for-academy-award-for-his-screenplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-with-kent-ties-nominated-for-academy-award-for-his-screenplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with Kent ties nominated for Academy Award for his screenplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Bob Nelson, who grew up in Kent and formerly wrote and performed as a cast member on the TV show &#8220;Almost Live,&#8221; was nominated for an Academy Award Thursday for Best Screenplay for the movie &#8220;Nebraska.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nelson, who was born in South Dakota born and lives on Whidbey Island, also was previously nominated for a Golden Globe for his screenplay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Nebraska&#8221; attracted six nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Bruce Dern.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On the announcement, Nelson told The Seattle Times, &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty exciting, for a boy from Kent.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Nelson, who grew up in Kent and formerly wrote and performed as a cast member on the TV show &#8220;Almost Live,&#8221; was nominated for an Academy Award Thursday for Best Screenplay for the movie &#8220;Nebraska.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}