{"id":506370,"date":"2010-04-02T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=99223"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:11:35","slug":"kal-penn-quitting-obama-administration-to-return-to-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/506370","title":{"rendered":"Kal Penn Quitting Obama Administration To Return To Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kal-Penn-Comes-Back-To-Hollywood.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kal Penn Comes Back To Hollywood\" width=\"490\" height=\"638\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-99224\" \/><br \/>\nWell, that was quick! <\/p>\n<p>Kal Penn, star of the <em>Harold &#038; Kumar<\/em> movies and a former regular on the FOX hit House, will leave his job in the Obama administration to appear in a new Christmas-themed flick as his signature stoner character, <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Penn quit his gig on the hospital drama to become White House director of public engagement last year. On Friday, a rep for the star confirmed that he has abandoned the post to return to the bright lights of Tinseltown and will begin work on his next Harold &#038; Kumar flick in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L___wEd9UhUh9je1aMIhiIBuQik\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L___wEd9UhUh9je1aMIhiIBuQik\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L___wEd9UhUh9je1aMIhiIBuQik\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L___wEd9UhUh9je1aMIhiIBuQik\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was quick! Kal Penn, star of the Harold &#038; Kumar movies and a former regular on the FOX hit House, will leave his job in the Obama administration to appear in a new Christmas-themed flick as his signature stoner character, Entertainment Weekly reported Friday. Penn quit his gig on the hospital drama to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}