{"id":4470,"date":"2018-11-25T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2018-11-25T22:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:20:41","slug":"three-times-the-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/11\/25\/three-times-the-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Times The Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a story which will put the tingle back in your loins, my pal&nbsp;<strong>John Wesley Shipp&nbsp;<\/strong>has winched his considerable assets back into tights to once again play&nbsp;<strong><em>The Flash<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cBilly,\u201d I can almost hear you crying, \u201cDoesn\u2019t he play the father of&nbsp;<em>The Flash<\/em>?\u201d&nbsp; Oh, how soon they forget.&nbsp; Back when&nbsp;<strong>James Van Der Beek&nbsp;<\/strong>barely had his first pubes, Shipp was the eponymous&nbsp;<em>Flash<\/em>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em>CBS<\/em>.&nbsp; Yes, now he plays the father.&nbsp; But in the \u201890s, our superheroes were much hunkier.&nbsp; For the fifth annual&nbsp;<em>Arrowverse<\/em>&nbsp;crossover,&nbsp;<strong><em>Elseworld<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;will feature characters from&nbsp;<em>The Flash<\/em>,&nbsp;<strong><em>Arrow<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><em>Supergirl<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;in a&nbsp;<em>CW&nbsp;<\/em>spectacular.&nbsp; The event takes place over three nights, December 9-11, introduces Batwoman and Lois Lane, and features Shipp in tights for the first time since 1990.&nbsp; Well, there was that night I spent with him in Toledo back in 2011\u2026but that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story which will put the tingle back in your loins, my pal&nbsp;John Wesley Shipp&nbsp;has winched his considerable assets back into tights to once again play&nbsp;The Flash.&nbsp; \u201cBilly,\u201d I can almost hear you crying, \u201cDoesn\u2019t he play the father of&nbsp;The Flash?\u201d&nbsp; Oh, how soon they forget.&nbsp; Back when&nbsp;James Van Der Beek&nbsp;barely had his first<\/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-4470","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\/4470","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=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}