{"id":4839,"date":"2019-03-25T04:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2019-03-25T04:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:05:02","slug":"so-long-dearie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/so-long-dearie\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long Dearie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from Palm Springs where I attended&nbsp;<strong><em>Remembering Carol: A Tribute to Carol Channing<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; This was a bittersweet event \u2013 but happily far more sweet than bitter.&nbsp; The bitter, of course, is that our beloved Carol is no longer with us.&nbsp; But, my God, the room was filled with such love and warmth that it was truly as if she never left.&nbsp; It was certainly not lost on me that it took a dozen luminaries to create a feeling Channing could do simply by walking into a room.&nbsp; Those gathered shared songs and stories about someone who was truly unique.&nbsp; People like&nbsp;<strong>Carole Cook<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Lily Tomlin<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tyne Daly<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ruta Lee<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Davis Gaines<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Kristin Chenoweth<\/strong>.&nbsp; Despite the star power in that theatre, there was only one way to end the celebration \u2013 with a video of Carol herself singing the eleven o\u2019clock number from&nbsp;<strong><em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; To our beloved Carol \u2013 so long dearie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from Palm Springs where I attended&nbsp;Remembering Carol: A Tribute to Carol Channing.&nbsp; This was a bittersweet event \u2013 but happily far more sweet than bitter.&nbsp; The bitter, of course, is that our beloved Carol is no longer with us.&nbsp; But, my God, the room was filled with such love and warmth that<\/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-4839","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\/4839","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=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}