{"id":4169,"date":"2018-08-13T01:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2018-08-13T01:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:19:49","slug":"no-brady-bunch-for-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/08\/13\/no-brady-bunch-for-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"No Brady Bunch for Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was ready to report that <strong>Lance Bass <\/strong>bought the house immortalized on <strong><em>The Brady Bunch<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; He put in a bid for the three bedroom\/three bathroom Studio City home, which was listed at $1.88 million.&nbsp; Bass shared the good news via <em>Twitter<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cSuper excited to announce they accepted my offer on the #BradyBunch house last night!!!\u201d&nbsp; <strong>Maureen McCormick <\/strong><em>Tweeted <\/em>back, \u201cCongratulations!&nbsp; May all your problems from here on out always be solved in a half hour!\u201d&nbsp; Lance said, \u201cThanks!&nbsp; You will certainly be the first dinner guest!!&nbsp; I\u2019m honored you approve!\u201d&nbsp; That excitement was short-lived.&nbsp; A \u201cnetwork\u201d put in a competing bid which trumped Lance\u2019s \u2013 and did so after the deadline passed.&nbsp; Lance was not amused.&nbsp; \u201cWe were prepared to go even higher but totally discouraged by the sellers agent, they will outperform any bid with unlimited resources.&nbsp; How is this fair or legal?&nbsp; How can I compete with a billion dollar corporate entity?&nbsp; I truly believe I was used to drive up the price of the home knowing very well that this corporation intended on making their offer and it\u2019s not a good feeling.\u201d&nbsp; The \u201cnetwork\u201d turned out to be <em>HGTV<\/em>.&nbsp; The CEO made the announcement during a conference call:&nbsp; \u201cOne of our projects for <em>HGTV <\/em>will speak to those <em>Brady Bunch <\/em>fans on the call.&nbsp; You may have heard that the house from the iconic series was recently on the market in California.&nbsp; I\u2019m excited to share that <em>HGTV <\/em>is the winning bidder and will restore the <em>Brady Bunch <\/em>home to its 1970s glory as only <em>HGTV <\/em>can.&nbsp; More detail to come over the next few months but we\u2019ll bring all the resources to bear to tell safe, fun stories about this beloved piece of American TV history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was ready to report that Lance Bass bought the house immortalized on The Brady Bunch.&nbsp; He put in a bid for the three bedroom\/three bathroom Studio City home, which was listed at $1.88 million.&nbsp; Bass shared the good news via Twitter.&nbsp; \u201cSuper excited to announce they accepted my offer on the #BradyBunch<\/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-4169","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\/4169","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=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}