{"id":88333,"date":"2022-01-16T23:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=88333"},"modified":"2022-01-16T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:11:07","slug":"70-years-of-todays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/01\/16\/70-years-of-todays\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Years of Todays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Today Show<\/em><\/strong> (which is now simply called <strong><em>Today<\/em><\/strong>) celebrated 70 years of service \u2013 a milestone I hope to achieve in a few decades.&nbsp; One notable absence was <strong>Matt Lauer<\/strong>, who hosted the program for a record 20 years and 331 days (which means he was sacked just a month short of his 21<sup>st<\/sup> anniversary).&nbsp; I\u2019m told that <strong>Savannah Guthrie <\/strong>was the one who nixed Matt being included in the celebration, feeling his presence would tarnish the show\u2019s legacy (although he did appear briefly in a video montage).&nbsp; This brings to mind a quote we ran last year from a black female tour guide at the <strong><em>Uncle<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Remus<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Museum<\/em><\/strong> in Eatonton, Georgia.&nbsp; \u201cYou can\u2019t measure your progress if you erase the past.\u201d&nbsp; Food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>I hope nobody expected Matt to go quietly into that good night.&nbsp; Taking a page from <strong>Katie Couric<\/strong>, Lauer is in the midst of writing a bombshell tell-all.&nbsp; Our source says the focus of the book is simple \u2013 revenge.&nbsp; He wants to trash everyone who trashed him.&nbsp; And, since he has nothing to lose, why not?&nbsp; I can\u2019t wait to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Today Show (which is now simply called Today) celebrated 70 years of service \u2013 a milestone I hope to achieve in a few decades.&nbsp; One notable absence was Matt Lauer, who hosted the program for a record 20 years and 331 days (which means he was sacked just a month short of his 21st<\/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-88333","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\/88333","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=88333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88334,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88333\/revisions\/88334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}