{"id":298,"date":"2014-06-29T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-08-08T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T02:47:09","slug":"whatcha-gonna-erykah-badu-sneaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/06\/29\/whatcha-gonna-erykah-badu-sneaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatcha Gonna Do When Erykah Badu Sneaks Up On You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[dropcap]C[\/dropcap]reating a scene straight out of a Kristen Wiig SNL sketch, Erykah Badu decided to prance, preen, and make obscene gestures behind the back of a local New York news reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone by the wild antics of <a href=\"http:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2014\/06\/27\/shia-labeouf-arrested-for-disrupting-broadway-show\/\">Shia LaBeouf<\/a>, or even the audacity of Pharrell Williams&#8217; hat, Eryka Badu decided to meander several times into the shot of a WPIX 11 News anchor who was trying to deliver a report about LaBeouf&#8217;s latest arrest. She even tries to kiss the poor guy.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/bYjuEPYzdgU<\/p>\n<p>When fans asked her via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fatbellybella\">Twitter<\/a> if that was her, she replied &#8220;Nope&#8221; but later must have had a change of heart after newsman Mario Diaz called her out on her behavior:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-29-at-2.22.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-29 at 2.22.48 PM\" width=\"634\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-29-at-2.22.48-PM.png 634w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-29-at-2.22.48-PM-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-29-at-2.22.48-PM-100x89.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[author title=&#8221;About the Author&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[custom_headline type=&#8221;center&#8221; level=&#8221;h2&#8243; looks_like=&#8221;h3&#8243; accent=&#8221;true&#8221;]Recent Posts[\/custom_headline]<\/p>\n<p>[recent_posts count=&#8221;1&#8243; orientation=&#8221;horizontal&#8221;] [recent_posts count=&#8221;3&#8243; orientation=&#8221;horizontal&#8221; offset=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a scene straight out of a Kristen Wiig SNL sketch, Erykah Badu decided to prance, preen, and make obscene gestures behind the back of a local New York news reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,80],"tags":[124,125,127,126],"class_list":{"0":"post-298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-music","9":"tag-erykah-badu","10":"tag-mario-diaz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-wpix-11"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}