{"id":4776,"date":"2019-03-04T02:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T10:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2019-03-04T02:57:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T10:57:43","slug":"marxjonas-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/marxjonas-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Marx\/Jonas Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched a documentary about the&nbsp;<strong><em>Marx Brothers&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 now, stay with me.&nbsp; I promise to make this relevant.&nbsp; I was particularly interested in a comment&nbsp;<strong>Groucho&nbsp;<\/strong>made well past the brothers\u2019 prime.&nbsp; He said that at least half of their classic films were made because&nbsp;<strong>Chico<\/strong>&nbsp;needed money to cover gambling debts.&nbsp; And the brothers needed Groucho for them to be successful (and he could use the money to pay alimony to multiple wives).&nbsp; As it turns out,&nbsp;<strong>Harpo&nbsp;<\/strong>was the most stable one with a healthy marriage and personal life.&nbsp; This anecdote came back to me when I heard about this&nbsp;<strong><em>Jonas Brothers&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>reunion.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Nick&nbsp;<\/strong>is clearly Groucho \u2013 the one you need to get a record deal.&nbsp; And&nbsp;<strong>Kevin&nbsp;<\/strong>is probably Harpo.&nbsp; Does that make&nbsp;<strong>Joe&nbsp;<\/strong>Chico?&nbsp; To really solidify this connection and make it stick, I still have to calculate how many Marx Brothers would have slept with&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched a documentary about the&nbsp;Marx Brothers&nbsp;\u2013 now, stay with me.&nbsp; I promise to make this relevant.&nbsp; I was particularly interested in a comment&nbsp;Groucho&nbsp;made well past the brothers\u2019 prime.&nbsp; He said that at least half of their classic films were made because&nbsp;Chico&nbsp;needed money to cover gambling debts.&nbsp; And the brothers needed Groucho for them<\/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-4776","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\/4776","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=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}