{"id":90807,"date":"2022-10-09T18:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90807"},"modified":"2022-10-09T18:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T01:53:43","slug":"rest-in-peace-judy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/rest-in-peace-judy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Judy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we mourn the passing of the <em>Love Goddess<\/em>, <strong>Judy Tenuta<\/strong>.&nbsp; For the past couple years, she\u2019s been waging a battle against ovarian cancer\u2026and lost.&nbsp; I found an amusing anecdote in the archives of <strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong> which bears repeating.&nbsp; In 2007, someone produced a birthday party for her along with a contest \u2013 <strong><em>Night of 100 Judys<\/em><\/strong> (a scaled-down twist on <strong><em>Night of 1000 Stevies<\/em><\/strong> in NYC).&nbsp; She asked me to be a judge alongside <strong>Jai Rodriguez <\/strong>and <strong>Bobby Trendy<\/strong>.&nbsp; When I showed up, no Jai, no Bobby.&nbsp; At the last minute, <strong>Jason Stuart <\/strong>was enlisted as a judge.&nbsp; There were a few dozen people in attendance \u2013 two of whom were in Judy drag.&nbsp; I told Judy, \u201cI think you might win the contest!\u201d&nbsp; She addressed the crowd, \u201cThank you for this lovely <strong><em>Night of a Few Judys<\/em><\/strong>!\u201d&nbsp; Just as the candles on the birthday cake were lit, the club manager shut the place down due to the low attendance.&nbsp; As we were unceremoniously tossed onto the street, Jason Stuart exclaimed, \u201cThis is terrible!&nbsp; We were seconds away from cake.&nbsp; Does anyone have a knife?&nbsp; Or a long key?\u201d&nbsp; Priceless.&nbsp; Pictures can be found on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we mourn the passing of the Love Goddess, Judy Tenuta.&nbsp; For the past couple years, she\u2019s been waging a battle against ovarian cancer\u2026and lost.&nbsp; I found an amusing anecdote in the archives of BillyMasters.com which bears repeating.&nbsp; In 2007, someone produced a birthday party for her along with a contest \u2013 Night of<\/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-90807","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\/90807","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=90807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90808,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807\/revisions\/90808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}