{"id":1332,"date":"2015-09-28T03:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2015-09-28T03:04:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:04:55","slug":"farewell-jackie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/farewell-jackie\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Jackie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When last I wrote you, I had just gotten word that <strong>Jackie Collins <\/strong>had died.\u00a0 We usually hung out at the hairdresser&#8217;s &#8211; the oh-so-chic <em>Hair at Riley&#8217;s <\/em>on Sunset.\u00a0 Jax showed me that&#8217;s where you got the best gossip.\u00a0 Everyone wanted to talk to Jackie &#8211; ostensibly to hear her stories.\u00a0 Within a couple of minutes, she had them spilling their secrets &#8211; secrets she transcribed when she got home.\u00a0 When I started writing this column, I asked her for advice. &#8220;Have I taught you nothing?\u00a0 Go to the hairdresser!&#8221;\u00a0 At the time of her death, Jax was working on a number of projects.\u00a0 In addition to a new novel, she&#8217;d been writing her long-promised autobiography.\u00a0 She promised that she&#8217;d name names in <strong><em>Reform School or Hollywood<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Then there was <strong><em>Jackie Collins: Hollywood Snaps<\/em><\/strong>, a coffee table book of celebrity photos she&#8217;d taken over the years.\u00a0 Lastly, there&#8217;s <strong><em>Jackie Collins: Hollywood Lies<\/em><\/strong>, a play she hoped to produce on <em>Broadway<\/em>.\u00a0 Something tells me we haven&#8217;t heard the last of Jackie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last I wrote you, I had just gotten word that Jackie Collins had died.\u00a0 We usually hung out at the hairdresser&#8217;s &#8211; the oh-so-chic Hair at Riley&#8217;s on Sunset.\u00a0 Jax showed me that&#8217;s where you got the best gossip.\u00a0 Everyone wanted to talk to Jackie &#8211; ostensibly to hear her stories.\u00a0 Within a couple<\/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-1332","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\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}