{"id":87790,"date":"2022-01-09T23:42:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=87790"},"modified":"2022-01-09T23:42:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:42:25","slug":"claybourne-and-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/01\/09\/claybourne-and-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Claybourne and Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture it \u2013 New York City, 2007.&nbsp; An attractive young man is visiting from Utah, trying to decide if he should relocate and pursue his dream of acting.&nbsp; He\u2019s snagged a cheap standing room ticket for <strong><em>The 25<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; When the show ends, a man and a woman come up to him and say, \u201cYou look like you were enjoying that show more than people who are sitting in the expensive seats.\u201d&nbsp; The man then gives the strapping young lad $200 and tells him he should use the money to buy a ticket to see <strong>Patti LuPone <\/strong>in <strong><em>Sweeney Todd<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019ll change your life\u201d.&nbsp; Not only does the boy do as told (proving he can take direction), he also thinks that if a stranger is willing to do this for him, maybe he should make the move.&nbsp; The Utah-ian is <strong>Claybourne Elder<\/strong>, who is now appearing with La LuPone in <strong><em>Company<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And when he shared the story on <em>Twitter<\/em>, someone knew the man with deep pockets \u2013 <strong>Mark Howell <\/strong>(who\u2019s pretty hot himself).&nbsp; Now, let me tell you the <strong>Billy Masters <\/strong>version of this story.&nbsp; A hot guy is in standing room.&nbsp; Another guy hands him $200.&nbsp; Hot guy says, \u201cHmm \u2013 maybe I should move to NYC.\u201d&nbsp; It\u2019s not a <em>Disney <\/em>ending\u2026unless you recall that studio also released <strong><em>Pretty Woman<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture it \u2013 New York City, 2007.&nbsp; An attractive young man is visiting from Utah, trying to decide if he should relocate and pursue his dream of acting.&nbsp; He\u2019s snagged a cheap standing room ticket for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.&nbsp; When the show ends, a man and a woman come up to<\/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-87790","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\/87790","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=87790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87791,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87790\/revisions\/87791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}