{"id":521604,"date":"2010-04-09T07:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=99878"},"modified":"2010-04-09T07:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:51:42","slug":"taye-diggs-national-train-day-2010-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521604","title":{"rendered":"Taye Diggs National Train Day 2010 Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Taye Diggs pointed at <a href=\"http:\/\/juiicyscoop.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/taye-diggs-and-black-women.html\">&#8220;Black women&#8221;<\/a> as the culprit behind the demise of his craptacular ABC series <em>Daybreak<\/em>, I haven&#8217;t particularly been a fan of the guy who once helped Stella get her groove back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Taye-Diggs-National-Train-Day-500x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Taye Diggs National Train Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-99881\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These days, Diggs is paying the &#8220;Rent&#8221; by using his famous face and well-defined abs to promote Amtrak&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestweekever.tv\/2010-04-06\/can-someone-please-help-taye-diggs-get-his-groove-back\/\">National Train Day festivities<\/a>. National Train Day spokesman might not be such a bad gig when you&#8217;re a 60-year-old F-Lister, but isn&#8217;t Taye a regular on <em>Private Practice<\/em>? Christ, he can&#8217;t need a paycheck that badly. <\/p>\n<p>Taye says he just likes trains. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-99878\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Riding the train was my first real exposure to serious travel and the magical notions attached to train travel will stay with me forever. My wife [Broadway Actress Idina Menzel] and I have lived all of our adult lives in New York City so we have come to know riding the train as a relaxing and convenient travel option.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to a press release on the annual event:<em> &#8220;Diggs will start the weekend&#8217;s festivities with a ceremony at New York&#8217;s Penn Station on Friday, May 7, where he will flip the switch that launches an edible &#8220;trainscape&#8221; made from elaborate confections and moving model trains.  Afterward, Diggs will board Amtrak and travel to Washington, D.C. to host one of National Train Day&#8217;s signature celebrations at Union Station and enjoy the festivities with other train fans on Saturday, May 8&#8230;..&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(FYI: I have no problem with him marrying outside his race. I like all kinds of people &#8212; more power to him if his relationship is making him happy. However, you don&#8217;t get to pull the stereotypical &#8220;Angry Black Woman&#8221; Card because you starred on a show that sucked and Americans let you know it by refusing to tune in. 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These days, Diggs is paying the &#8220;Rent&#8221; by using his famous face and well-defined abs to promote Amtrak&#8217;s [&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-521604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521604","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=521604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}