{"id":43186,"date":"2021-02-01T00:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T08:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=43186"},"modified":"2021-02-01T00:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T08:16:26","slug":"farewell-cloris-cicely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/farewell-cloris-cicely\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Cloris &#038; Cicely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a sad week for the <strong><em>Billy Masters Empire<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I owe some of my early success to <strong>Cloris Leachman<\/strong>.&nbsp; In conspiratorial details that will be revealed in my forthcoming memoirs, Cloris asked me to slip a story into my column.&nbsp; I wrote it with my usual aplomb, it got picked up everywhere, and led to my first credits in the mainstream press.&nbsp; I believe it also led to my being included in <em>Hot Topics <\/em>on <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Cloris was delighted with the results.&nbsp; She was a great gal \u2013 smart, talented, lovely, and bawdy.&nbsp; She could do anything \u2013 and did\u2026for 94 years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d also like to acknowledge the passing of the 96-year-old <strong>Miss Cicely Tyson <\/strong>\u2013 whom I only met once, but who made an indelible impression on me.&nbsp; She was a little bit of a thing, but she was clearly not one to trifle with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a sad week for the Billy Masters Empire.&nbsp; I owe some of my early success to Cloris Leachman.&nbsp; In conspiratorial details that will be revealed in my forthcoming memoirs, Cloris asked me to slip a story into my column.&nbsp; I wrote it with my usual aplomb, it got picked up everywhere, and led<\/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-43186","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\/43186","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=43186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43187,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43186\/revisions\/43187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}