{"id":1294,"date":"2015-09-07T02:04:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T09:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2015-09-07T02:04:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T09:04:32","slug":"billy-remembers-joan-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/billy-remembers-joan-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Remembers Joan Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a year since <strong>Joan Rivers<\/strong>&#8216; untimely death.\u00a0 As you know, I had a long relationship with <em>Auntie Joan<\/em>, so I&#8217;d like to relate two anecdotes which I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever shared before.\u00a0 When I first contacted her as a kid, the abbreviations for states had just changed to what are now the standard two letters &#8211; so Massachusetts went from Mass to MA.\u00a0 She ended her first letter to me (on <em>Caesars<\/em> <em>Palace<\/em> stationery) saying, &#8220;It makes me feel so happy to know I have a fan in Maine.&#8221;\u00a0 Over the years, Joan and I spent many memorable moments together on the red carpet.\u00a0 One that stands out was the 2005 <strong><em>Golden Globes<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Joan had briefly left <em>E! <\/em>for the <em>TV Guide Network<\/em>.\u00a0 After the pre-show, we were walking by the now-deserted E! set.\u00a0 I mentioned how nice it looked, festooned with roses.\u00a0 &#8220;You should take the flowers,&#8221; I quipped, knowing it never took much to goad her.\u00a0 Auntie Joan&#8217;s eyes flashed, &#8220;Damn right!\u00a0 I put that network on the map &#8211; they owe me.\u00a0 Get out your camera.&#8221;\u00a0 Not sure if I should take photos or a video, I did both.\u00a0 You can see this brief video and photos for the first time\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BillyMasters.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a year since Joan Rivers&#8216; untimely death.\u00a0 As you know, I had a long relationship with Auntie Joan, so I&#8217;d like to relate two anecdotes which I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever shared before.\u00a0 When I first contacted her as a kid, the abbreviations for states had just changed to what are now the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}