{"id":4798,"date":"2019-03-11T04:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2019-03-11T04:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:15:27","slug":"rip-luke-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/rip-luke-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Luke Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now we move onto the tragic news about&nbsp;<strong>Luke Perry<\/strong>.&nbsp; 52 years old, in good health, massive stroke, medically induced coma, and then dead.&nbsp; Having just crossed the half-a-century mark, this story hits a bit too close to home.&nbsp; But here\u2019s something I didn\u2019t know \u2013 he had his stroke while waiting to be picked up to go to the memorial service of&nbsp;<strong><em>Young and the Restless<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;actor&nbsp;<strong>Kristoff St. John<\/strong>\u2026who also died at 52.&nbsp; Talk about eerie.&nbsp; All sorts of lovely stories about Luke have come out.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Ian Ziering&nbsp;<\/strong>reminisced about when he and wife&nbsp;<strong>Erin&nbsp;<\/strong>were shooting maternity pictures in their backyard.&nbsp; Luke showed up with tools and supplies \u2013 he decided Ian needed a fenced-in area to keep the imminent arrival safe.&nbsp; The other story which tugged at my heartstrings was when Perry gave his son\u2019s dinosaur blanket to&nbsp;<strong>Jarrod Emick&nbsp;<\/strong>when he had a baby boy.&nbsp; It came with a card: \u201c<strong>Walker<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Welcome to the world.&nbsp; Good to have you aboard.&nbsp; This blanket belonged to my son when he was your age.&nbsp; It kept him warm many nights, and all of these dinosaurs are friendly and will protect you.&nbsp; Mom &amp; Dad \u2013 I wish you all the very best.&nbsp; Now your life has&nbsp;<u>really<\/u>&nbsp;started.&nbsp; Best wishes always, Luke.\u201d&nbsp; I think that pretty much sums up the kinda guy he was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we move onto the tragic news about&nbsp;Luke Perry.&nbsp; 52 years old, in good health, massive stroke, medically induced coma, and then dead.&nbsp; Having just crossed the half-a-century mark, this story hits a bit too close to home.&nbsp; But here\u2019s something I didn\u2019t know \u2013 he had his stroke while waiting to be picked up<\/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-4798","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\/4798","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=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}