{"id":68466,"date":"2021-08-22T22:38:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=68466"},"modified":"2021-08-22T22:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:38:21","slug":"come-in-from-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/come-in-from-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Come in From The Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2021 \u2013 <strong>Barry Manilow <\/strong>is onstage at <strong><em>We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert<\/em><\/strong> in Central Park.&nbsp; Lightning strikes during \u201cCan\u2019t Smile Without You\u201d, and he\u2019s pulled off stage.&nbsp; Prior to the show being cancelled due to <em>Hurricane Henri<\/em>, <strong><em>Earth, Wind &amp; Fire <\/em><\/strong>had performed.&nbsp; At least Barry only had to deal with Earth and Wind!<\/p>\n<p>This reminded me of July 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 1983 \u2013 <strong>Diana Ross <\/strong>stands onstage, also in Central Park.&nbsp; The winds are howling, the rains are falling, the lightning is striking, and Miss Ross is saying, \u201cIt took me a lifetime to get here\u2026\u201d when officials call off the show and basically force a drenched Diana offstage.&nbsp; All in all, Manilow got off easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 21st, 2021 \u2013 Barry Manilow is onstage at We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert in Central Park.&nbsp; Lightning strikes during \u201cCan\u2019t Smile Without You\u201d, and he\u2019s pulled off stage.&nbsp; Prior to the show being cancelled due to Hurricane Henri, Earth, Wind &amp; Fire had performed.&nbsp; At least Barry only had to deal with Earth<\/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-68466","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\/68466","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=68466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68476,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68466\/revisions\/68476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}