{"id":5396,"date":"2019-10-07T03:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2019-10-07T03:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:22:59","slug":"rip-diahann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/10\/07\/rip-diahann\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Diahann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I typically don\u2019t start by remembering someone who has passed away, but&nbsp;<strong>Diahann Carroll&nbsp;<\/strong>was anything but typical.&nbsp; Just the spelling of her name let you know that she was different (a wise and powerful friend always pronounces it with three syllables \u2013 Di-ah-hann).&nbsp; Out of the many memories I have with her, I\u2019d like to share one special anecdote.&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t yet living in LA, but I was visiting and decided to go to the movies alone.&nbsp; There were only a few people in front of me to buy a ticket in Century City, but then I spied Diahann quietly go to the end of this long line.&nbsp; I had just spent time with her in Boston a few weeks earlier, so I caught her attention and surreptitiously slipped her in line ahead of me.&nbsp; She thanked me, adding that the manager of the cinema said she could always ask for him and not wait in line.&nbsp; But, she added, \u201cI don\u2019t do things like that\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I asked what she was there to see.&nbsp; \u201cMy daughter is in school in New York and she said I had to see&nbsp;<strong><em>The Joy Luck Club&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>because it\u2019s about mothers and daughters.&nbsp; So, I brought my mother to see it,\u201d and pointed to the lovely&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. Johnson<\/strong>, who was sitting nearby on a bench.&nbsp; We got up to the window and Diahann bought her ticket.&nbsp; Then she turned to me \u2013 \u201cI never asked \u2013 what are you seeing?\u201d&nbsp; Well, I was planned on seeing&nbsp;<strong><em>The Real McCoy<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 don\u2019t feel bad if you don\u2019t remember this&nbsp;<strong>Kim Basinger<\/strong>\/<strong>Val Kilmer&nbsp;<\/strong>stinker.&nbsp; I certainly couldn\u2019t admit to Diahann that I was going to see this piece of trash.&nbsp; Plus, I smelled an opportunity.&nbsp; I, too, got a ticket for&nbsp;<em>The Joy Luck Club<\/em>.&nbsp; Diahann was delighted.&nbsp; \u201cHow great we ran into each other \u2013 now we can all see it together.\u201d&nbsp; And that, dear readers, is how I shared a beautiful mother\/daughter moment with Diahann Carroll\u2026and her mother.&nbsp; Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I typically don\u2019t start by remembering someone who has passed away, but&nbsp;Diahann Carroll&nbsp;was anything but typical.&nbsp; Just the spelling of her name let you know that she was different (a wise and powerful friend always pronounces it with three syllables \u2013 Di-ah-hann).&nbsp; Out of the many memories I have with her, I\u2019d like to share<\/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-5396","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\/5396","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=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}