{"id":5148,"date":"2019-07-07T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2019-07-07T23:21:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:21:43","slug":"4th-of-july-in-ptown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/07\/07\/4th-of-july-in-ptown\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July in Ptown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in MY Ptown, I was busy with the sun, sand, surf, and studs in skivvies.&nbsp; Call me old-fashioned, but over July 4<sup>th<\/sup>, I consider myself a patriot \u2013 as much of a patriot as those brave soldiers who stormed the airports and took to flight during the&nbsp;<em>War of Independence<\/em>.&nbsp; Someone I\u2019d never war with is the gorgeous&nbsp;<strong>Gavin Creel<\/strong>, who was at the&nbsp;<em>Ptown Art House&nbsp;<\/em>courtesy of&nbsp;<strong>Seth Rudetsky<\/strong>.&nbsp; The show was a delight \u2013 you can always tell when Seth has a personal relationship with his guest.&nbsp; This was effortless \u2013 like Gavin\u2019s mellifluous range.&nbsp; Seth has a cavalcade of guests stopping by all summer long, so check out&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptownarthouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>PTownArtHouse.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;for the latest schedule.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Varla Jean Merman<\/strong>, who never disappoints\u2026even when she\u2019s bored.&nbsp; Yes, this year\u2019s show is called&nbsp;<strong><em>A Star is Bored<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and, trust me, you\u2019ll be anything but.&nbsp; The songs, the costumes, the video, the cheese \u2013 it\u2019s all there.&nbsp; Varla even pays homage to those who came before her \u2013 so it\u2019s almost educational.&nbsp; Catch it before it turns up on your local&nbsp;<em>PBS&nbsp;<\/em>station during&nbsp;<em>Pledge Week<\/em>!&nbsp; Get your tix early at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.PTownArtHouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>PTownArtHouse.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;because she\u2019s got a limited schedule and is selling out each and&nbsp;every show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in MY Ptown, I was busy with the sun, sand, surf, and studs in skivvies.&nbsp; Call me old-fashioned, but over July 4th, I consider myself a patriot \u2013 as much of a patriot as those brave soldiers who stormed the airports and took to flight during the&nbsp;War of Independence.&nbsp; Someone I\u2019d never war with<\/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-5148","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\/5148","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=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}