{"id":91046,"date":"2023-01-01T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T05:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91046"},"modified":"2023-01-01T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T05:43:27","slug":"rest-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/01\/01\/rest-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to <strong>Barbara Walters <\/strong>to upstage a giant <em>Waterford Crystal <\/em>ball dropping in <em>Times Square<\/em>.&nbsp; While not unexpected, it was sadly announced that Walters died at the age of 93.&nbsp; It\u2019s been whispered that she had been battling dementia for at least seven years, and was practically bedridden for the past five.&nbsp; Still, one cannot say enough about her place in history.&nbsp; She routinely broke glass ceilings and never let the word \u201cNo\u201d deter her.&nbsp; She did whatever it took \u2013 whether it was playing second banana to a chimp or wearing a <em>Bunny <\/em>costume (rumor has it she wanted to be buried in it).&nbsp; In later years, she created a lasting legacy in daytime television.&nbsp; <strong>Cheri Oteri <\/strong>as Barbara Walters said it best: \u201cSome may call it a trainwreck \u2013 we call it <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As hard as it was to say goodbye to Barbara, an even more difficult death occurred just under the wire.&nbsp; <strong>Anita Pointer <\/strong>of the fabulous <strong><em>Pointer Sisters <\/em><\/strong>passed away on New Year\u2019s Eve.&nbsp; My love for the group is well-documented.&nbsp; Anita was on one of the first episodes of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; While she always had an infectious laugh and a raucous sense of humor, the light inside had been extinguished since the death of daughter <strong>Jada <\/strong>in 2003.&nbsp; She admitted, \u201cIt took 90% of me away.\u201d&nbsp; As she was the daughter of reverends, I questioned her faith after this loss.&nbsp; She sadly said, \u201cI really don\u2019t have any faith.\u201d&nbsp; You can watch this entire interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MtIFTSSOmbw?t=5197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; Rest in peace, Anita.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtIFTSSOmbw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to Barbara Walters to upstage a giant Waterford Crystal ball dropping in Times Square.&nbsp; While not unexpected, it was sadly announced that Walters died at the age of 93.&nbsp; It\u2019s been whispered that she had been battling dementia for at least seven years, and was practically bedridden for the past five.&nbsp; Still, one<\/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-91046","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\/91046","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=91046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91047,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91046\/revisions\/91047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}