{"id":91056,"date":"2023-01-08T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91056"},"modified":"2023-01-08T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:39:22","slug":"wheres-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/01\/08\/wheres-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Barbara?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for the hottest game in NYC, <strong><em>Where\u2019s Barbara?<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; The Barbara in question is <strong>Barbara Walters<\/strong>.&nbsp; Obviously we all know she\u2019s dead.&nbsp; But none of her friends know exactly where she is.&nbsp; According to insiders, friends have been calling funeral parlors all over the Tri-State area in order to figure out what the arrangements are.&nbsp; Not only friends, but former colleagues \u2013 including people at <em>ABC<\/em> and, in particular, <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; When the famed <em>Frank E. Campbell <\/em>facility was contacted, they said (rather bluntly, if you ask me), \u201cWe don\u2019t have her!\u201d&nbsp; Walters\u2019 moody daughter <strong>Jackie <\/strong>has remained mum.&nbsp; The supposition is that since she had to share her mother with the world while she was alive, she\u2019s keeping the arrangements private.&nbsp; Maybe Barbara\u2019s been cryogenically preserved \u2013 only to be revived in time to say, \u201cWelcome to 3030!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Barbara were still with us, I\u2019m sure she\u2019d be reporting on the execution of <strong>Amber McLaughlin<\/strong>.&nbsp; I never heard of her either, but turns out she made history.&nbsp; She is the first transgender person (of either sex) to be executed in this country.&nbsp; She was also the first person put to death this year, but that\u2019s less historic.&nbsp; When Amber was still <strong>Scott<\/strong>, s\/he was convicted of murdering a former girlfriend.&nbsp; That typically wouldn\u2019t lead to an execution.&nbsp; But while the jury came back with a guilty verdict, they could not decide on a punishment.&nbsp; That was left to the discretion of the judge, who made the unprecedented decision of the death penalty (apparently only two states allow this to happen).&nbsp; It was after being sentenced to death by lethal injection that Scott transitioned to Amber.&nbsp; A curious case, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for the hottest game in NYC, Where\u2019s Barbara?&nbsp; The Barbara in question is Barbara Walters.&nbsp; Obviously we all know she\u2019s dead.&nbsp; But none of her friends know exactly where she is.&nbsp; According to insiders, friends have been calling funeral parlors all over the Tri-State area in order to figure out what the arrangements are.&nbsp;<\/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-91056","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\/91056","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=91056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91065,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91056\/revisions\/91065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}