{"id":4576,"date":"2018-12-30T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T06:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2018-12-30T22:56:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T06:56:58","slug":"kennedy-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/12\/30\/kennedy-center-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ways of ending the year is to watch the&nbsp;<strong><em>Kennedy Center Honors<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And, what a gala it was.&nbsp; They honored&nbsp;<strong>Cher<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Reba<\/strong>.&nbsp; And a bunch of others who slipped my mind\u2026oh, yes, composer&nbsp;<strong>Philip Glass<\/strong>, saxophonist&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Shorter<\/strong>, and the creators of&nbsp;<strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Kail<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Andy Blankenbuehler&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Alex Lacamoire<\/strong>).&nbsp; Here\u2019s a little inside tidbit you won\u2019t hear anywhere else.&nbsp; One of my DC deep throats told me that Lin-Manuel was approached about getting the&nbsp;<em>Kennedy<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Center<\/em><em>&nbsp;Honor<\/em>\u2026solo.&nbsp; Allegedly, he said that he\u2019d decline the honor unless it was given to the entire creative team.&nbsp; Talk about being a team player.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, I\u2019ve tuned in to these festivities to see&nbsp;<strong>Caroline Kennedy<\/strong>.&nbsp; So I was disappointed that&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. Schlossberg&nbsp;<\/strong>was unable to attend\u2026probably competing in some equestrian show.&nbsp; Nary a Schlossberg seemed available.&nbsp; So, naturally, when you think of the Kennedy legacy, the obvious host is Latina spitfire,&nbsp;<strong>Gloria Estefan<\/strong>.&nbsp; In an advance photo promoting the telecast, the honorees were assembled, and you\u2019d swear it was an exhibition at&nbsp;<strong><em>Madame Tussauds<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; Of course, one can\u2019t capture movement in a still photo.&nbsp; Color me surprised to tune in and see Cher just as animated on the telecast \u2013 it\u2019s like every time the camera panned to her, they simply hit pause.&nbsp; Thank God she opened her eyes and sprung to life once&nbsp;<strong>Cyndi Lauper&nbsp;<\/strong>appeared.&nbsp; She even jumped up and danced a bit.&nbsp; And that\u2019s when I understood the problem \u2013 I believe that corset she was wearing restricted her breathing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ways of ending the year is to watch the&nbsp;Kennedy Center Honors.&nbsp; And, what a gala it was.&nbsp; They honored&nbsp;Cher.&nbsp;&nbsp;Reba.&nbsp; And a bunch of others who slipped my mind\u2026oh, yes, composer&nbsp;Philip Glass, saxophonist&nbsp;Wayne Shorter, and the creators of&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;(Lin-Manuel Miranda,&nbsp;Thomas Kail,&nbsp;Andy Blankenbuehler&nbsp;and&nbsp;Alex Lacamoire).&nbsp; Here\u2019s a little inside tidbit you won\u2019t hear anywhere else.&nbsp;<\/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-4576","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\/4576","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=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}