{"id":90646,"date":"2022-08-14T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90646"},"modified":"2022-08-14T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T20:00:54","slug":"rest-in-peace-livvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/08\/14\/rest-in-peace-livvy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Livvy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I was fortunate to spend lots of time with <strong>Olivia Newton-John <\/strong>both onstage and off, most memorably when I hosted her only concert of 2008 \u2013 at <strong><em>LA Pride<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; As many have said, the best way to describe her personality was \u201csunny\u201d.&nbsp; Fast forward to 2020, when I hosted a special <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> to celebrate 50 years of <em>LA Pride<\/em>.&nbsp; I thought Olivia would be a great guest, so I reached out to her publicist and bestie, my bon ami <strong>Michael Caprio<\/strong>.&nbsp; ONJ was game, but technologically couldn\u2019t do it due to unreliable Internet at her ranch.&nbsp; Unexpectedly, a couple of hours before our live show, I got an e-mail from Caprio.&nbsp; \u201cOlivia was sorry she couldn\u2019t join you live, but thought you might be able to use this.\u201d&nbsp; Attached was a video she shot, wishing us a happy <em>Pride<\/em>, saying how sorry she was she couldn\u2019t join us live, and saluting our efforts.&nbsp; She had nothing to gain from it \u2013 she just wanted us all to know she was there.&nbsp; Thanks, Livvy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HsA9Lv0XpsI?start=1676\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I was fortunate to spend lots of time with Olivia Newton-John both onstage and off, most memorably when I hosted her only concert of 2008 \u2013 at LA Pride.&nbsp; As many have said, the best way to describe her personality was \u201csunny\u201d.&nbsp; Fast forward to 2020, when I hosted a special Billy<\/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-90646","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\/90646","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=90646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90647,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90646\/revisions\/90647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}