{"id":5910,"date":"2020-01-05T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2020-01-05T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T05:17:09","slug":"welcome-to-20-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/01\/05\/welcome-to-20-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To 20\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cThis is <strong>20\/20<\/strong>.\u201d <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Cheri Oteri <\/strong>rings in the New Year as <strong>Barbara Walters <\/strong>alongside<br \/>\na stoic <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>and a giggling <strong>Anderson Cooper <\/strong>on <em>CNN<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a lot like <strong>Tina Turner<\/strong>.&nbsp; Now, the obvious question to ask is, \u201cHow, <strong>Billy<\/strong>, are you like Tina Turner?\u201d&nbsp; Sometimes I like my life to be nice and easy; but sometimes, I like it to be nice and rough.&nbsp; I was thinking \u2013 what would be a good challenge for this, the dawn of a new decade.&nbsp; Then it hit me \u2013 we\u2019ve got 50 states in this country (more or less), and we\u2019ve got 50 weeks in a year (more or less).&nbsp; So, why not try and have sex with a guy from a different state each week.&nbsp; I\u2019ve built in a lot of conditions for this challenge.&nbsp; First off \u2013 none of this has to be done alphabetically.&nbsp; Also, layover sex in an airport definitely counts.&nbsp; However, the guy and I don\u2019t need to have sex in the state in question.&nbsp; But since I\u2019m a stickler for details, IDs should be consulted \u2013 even at certain gatherings where clothing is not required.&nbsp; Come to think of it, on a good night I could cross like a baker\u2019s dozen states off the list if I\u2019m lucid enough to keep track.&nbsp; Let\u2019s see how this goes \u2013 and how often I need to go to urgent care!<\/p>\n<p>Since traditions need to be upheld, my New Year\u2019s Eve was spent with close friends in my native Massachusetts watching the latest <strong>Lindsay Wagner <\/strong>film.&nbsp; Well, to call <strong><em>Christmas on the Range<\/em><\/strong> a film is an insult to celluloid everywhere.&nbsp; But, it gave Wagner the opportunity to wear a variety of ponchos (undoubtedly from her own vast collection) and to act opposite the inestimable talents of <strong>Mr. A Martinez<\/strong>.&nbsp; My companions and I also watched the <strong><em>Catherine the Great<\/em><\/strong> miniseries starring <strong>Dame Helen Mirren<\/strong>, which obviously paled in comparison..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is 20\/20.\u201d &nbsp; \u2013 Cheri Oteri rings in the New Year as Barbara Walters alongside a stoic Andy Cohen and a giggling Anderson Cooper on CNN. I\u2019m a lot like Tina Turner.&nbsp; Now, the obvious question to ask is, \u201cHow, Billy, are you like Tina Turner?\u201d&nbsp; Sometimes I like my life to be nice<\/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-5910","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\/5910","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=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5919,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}