{"id":10399,"date":"2012-05-20T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10399"},"modified":"2012-05-03T02:07:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T09:07:33","slug":"whoopi-goldbergs-real-name-is-caryn-elaine-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/whoopi-goldbergs-real-name-is-caryn-elaine-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg&#8217;s Real Name is Caryn Elaine Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whoopi-goldberg-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10577\" title=\"whoopi goldberg facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whoopi-goldberg-facts.jpg\" alt=\"whoopi goldberg facts\" width=\"559\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whoopi-goldberg-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whoopi-goldberg-facts-340x365.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known as Whoopi Goldberg, chose the first part of her stage name from often being called &#8220;like a whoopee cushion&#8221; due to her fondness for frequent flatulence when performing.\u00a0 The second part of her stage name, Goldberg, was suggested by her mother as she felt using a Jewish last name would help Caryn in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"bonusfacts\">Bonus<\/span> Fact: Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah both made their acting debuts in <em>The Color Purple<\/em>. The two haven&#8217;t kept in touch since; Oprah didn&#8217;t invite Goldberg to her Legends Ball honoring African American Women, and Whoopi has stated she&#8217;s never seen an episode of Oprah.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/20\/magazine\/20wwln_q4.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A with Whoopi Goldberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/person\/72881|0\/Whoopi-Goldberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known as Whoopi Goldberg, chose the first part of her stage name from often being called &#8220;like a whoopee cushion&#8221; due to her fondness for frequent flatulence when performing.\u00a0 The second part of her stage name, Goldberg, was suggested by her mother as she felt using a Jewish last name would help Caryn in Hollywood. <span id=\"bonusfacts\">Bonus<\/span> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2547,745,768,2464,2463,2548,1112,2546],"class_list":["post-10399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-caryn-johnson","tag-celebrity-facts","tag-entertainment-trivia","tag-know-it","tag-now-you-know","tag-oprah-facts","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-whoopi-goldberg-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10578,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions\/10578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}