{"id":5539,"date":"2022-05-07T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/matt-james-reflects-on-the-bachelor-and-future-with-rachael-kirkconnell-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2022-05-07T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:00:07","slug":"matt-james-reflects-on-the-bachelor-and-future-with-rachael-kirkconnell-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=5539","title":{"rendered":"Matt James Reflects on &#8216;The Bachelor&#8217; and Future with Rachael Kirkconnell (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AG0FA6_0ujY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Matt James opens up to ET&#8217;s Denny Directo about sharing his story in his new book, &#8216;First Impressions: Off-Screen Conversations with a Bachelor on Race, Family, and Forgiveness.&#8217; The former &#8216;Bachelor&#8217; reflects on his tumultuous time on the show and why he&#8217;ll never &#8216;disparage&#8217; the franchise. Plus, his public perception of his relationship with Rachael Kirkconnell and whether he&#8217;s thinking about proposing to her. He also shares what it has meant to be vulnerable about the good, the bad and the ugly parts of his life in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt James opens up to ET&#8217;s Denny Directo about sharing his story in his new book, &#8216;First Impressions: Off-Screen Conversations with a Bachelor on Race, Family, and Forgiveness.&#8217; The former &#8216;Bachelor&#8217; reflects on his tumultuous time on the show and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4987],"tags":[9955,9958,9959,9957,9956,4216],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-entertainment-news","tag-matt-james","tag-matt-james-bachelor","tag-matt-james-bachelor-interview","tag-matt-james-interview","tag-rachael-kirkconnell","tag-the-bachelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}