{"id":4233,"date":"2018-09-03T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2018-09-03T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:03:10","slug":"cut-go-go-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/cut-go-go-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut Go-Go Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of shirtless hunks, the go-go boys at the legendary <em>Abbey <\/em>in West Hollywood were asked by head honcho <strong>Dave Cooley <\/strong>to take a 25-percent cut on their nightly pay.&nbsp; The \u201cdancers\u201d (and I use this term loosely) are paid $100 for four one-hour shifts.&nbsp; Before going on, let me say that back in the \u201890s when I hosted my immensely popular all-male revues in New England, I paid my dancers $100 \u2013 and all they had to do was dance to a couple songs.&nbsp; Apparently inflation hasn\u2019t worked its way into g-strings.&nbsp; Anyhoo, Cooley asked his dancers to do one of the shifts for free \u2013 which is how it goes down to $75.&nbsp; He also told them to stop socializing with customers \u2013 who tip generously (which is how a dancer can survive on a salary of $100).&nbsp; One dancer, <strong>Michael Benjamin Volkar <\/strong>(who goes by the name <em>Teddy Bear<\/em>), went public.&nbsp; After sharing the facts, he added this: \u201cThe pay cut also came with a long message reminding every dancer that they are replaceable and that they should be dancing even harder and can be fired at any moment.\u201d&nbsp; Well, that last part is true \u2013 you can\u2019t throw a stone in WeHo without hitting someone who could be a hot go-go boy.&nbsp; In fact, I dare you \u2013 go outside and throw a stone and you see what you hit.&nbsp; We hear the proposed pay cut is not going into effect, but that\u2019s a bit too late for Volkar, who has been fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of shirtless hunks, the go-go boys at the legendary Abbey in West Hollywood were asked by head honcho Dave Cooley to take a 25-percent cut on their nightly pay.&nbsp; The \u201cdancers\u201d (and I use this term loosely) are paid $100 for four one-hour shifts.&nbsp; Before going on, let me say that back in 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-4233","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\/4233","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=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}