{"id":2801,"date":"2017-05-22T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2017-05-22T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:06:07","slug":"the-stage-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/the-stage-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"The STAGE Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I also attended the <strong><em>Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event <\/em><\/strong>&#8211; otherwise known as <strong><em>STAGE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; This fundraiser &#8211; the world&#8217;s longest-running annual HIV\/AIDS benefit &#8211; took its final bow with a cavalcade of stars from stage, screen, and TV.&nbsp; The ageless <strong>Carole Cook <\/strong>was at the very first <em>STAGE <\/em>concert.&nbsp; She&#8217;s been in 31 of the 33, but she had a good excuse for the two she missed &#8211; she was on <em>Broadway<\/em>!&nbsp; It was fitting for her to close the show, easily sounding and appearing a generation or two younger than her 93 years.&nbsp; She embodied everything that has been right with this event, which has raised tens of millions of dollars over these many years.&nbsp; Bravo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also attended the Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event &#8211; otherwise known as STAGE.&nbsp; This fundraiser &#8211; the world&#8217;s longest-running annual HIV\/AIDS benefit &#8211; took its final bow with a cavalcade of stars from stage, screen, and TV.&nbsp; The ageless Carole Cook was at the very first STAGE concert.&nbsp; She&#8217;s been in 31 of 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-2801","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\/2801","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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}