{"id":1296,"date":"2015-09-07T02:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T09:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2015-09-07T02:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T09:09:05","slug":"the-marine-asked-and-grand-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/the-marine-asked-and-grand-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marine Asked and Grand Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how innocent young men often ask a famous person to a prom, or a ball, or some other fabulous event?\u00a0 Well, we now have a first.\u00a0 <strong>Tanner White<\/strong>, a Marine, made a special video for <strong>Steve Grand<\/strong>, better known for posing in various forms of undress than for actually singing.\u00a0 &#8220;Steve, you are an amazing singer.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen some of your blog videos, and they were awesome.\u00a0 I would like for you to go with me to the 2015 <strong><em>Marine Corps Ball <\/em><\/strong>in Wilmington, North Carolina as my date.\u00a0 Hopefully you&#8217;ll say yes.\u00a0 If not, it was worth a shot.&#8221;\u00a0 Because apparently nobody can simply pick up a telephone, Grand posted a video of his own: &#8220;I want to say that I&#8217;m honored to accept your invitation to be your date at the <em>Marine Corps Ball <\/em>this November.\u00a0 Thank you so much for your service to this country, and I look forward to a really fun evening with you in November.&#8221;\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the date includes more servicing &#8211; to say nothing of a part of the anatomy turning purple, decidedly south of the heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how innocent young men often ask a famous person to a prom, or a ball, or some other fabulous event?\u00a0 Well, we now have a first.\u00a0 Tanner White, a Marine, made a special video for Steve Grand, better known for posing in various forms of undress than for actually singing.\u00a0 &#8220;Steve, you are<\/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-1296","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\/1296","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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}