{"id":364,"date":"2005-05-11T22:59:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T02:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=364"},"modified":"2005-05-11T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T03:00:33","slug":"whats-the-deal-with-dave-chappelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the deal with Dave Chappelle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/Entertainment\/NYET17205092054.jpeg\" alt=\"Chappelle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, earlier there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=358\">annoucnement that Comedy Central was halting production<\/a> of the third season of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/chappellesshow\/showclips.jhtml\">Chappelle&#8217;s Show<\/a>, and no reason was given.<\/p>\n<p>Now, rumours are circulating like wildfire that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory?id=749369\">Chappelle may have gone nuts<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian&#8217;s whereabouts and condition have been unknown since Comedy Central abruptly announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of &#8220;Chappelle&#8217;s Show&#8221; had been postponed and production halted.<\/p>\n<p>Chappelle flew from Newark, N.J., to South Africa on April 28 for treatment, said the magazine, quoting a source close to the show it would not identify. Entertainment Weekly said it had corroborating sources for its story.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reports are now that Dave Chappelle is in a mental institution in South Africa?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}