{"id":91076,"date":"2023-01-15T19:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91076"},"modified":"2023-01-15T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T03:57:16","slug":"farewell-and-au-revoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/01\/15\/farewell-and-au-revoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell and Au Revoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a busy one for celebrity deaths.&nbsp; I don\u2019t want to make light of the passing of such luminaries as <strong>Adam Rich <\/strong>and <strong>Robbie Knievel <\/strong>(<strong>Evil<\/strong>\u2019s son).&nbsp; I even observed a moment of silence when I heard about <strong>Lisa Marie Presley<\/strong>\u2019s passing \u2013 although, I never thought she looked particularly healthy (or happy).&nbsp; But I was genuinely sad bidding adieu to my dear friend, <strong>Carole Cook<\/strong>.&nbsp; Truly it is no tragedy to go at 98\u2026although it is sad that she was only three days shy of 99.&nbsp; Beyond her extensive work on television (a <em>prot\u00e9g\u00e9e <\/em>of <strong>Lucille Ball<\/strong>), stage (<strong><em>42<sup>nd<\/sup> Street<\/em><\/strong>) and film (<strong><em>The Incredible Mr. Limpet<\/em><\/strong>), she was a tireless fundraiser in the fight against AIDS and one helluva broad.&nbsp; I once asked her the secret of her success.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m a great fuck\u201d.&nbsp; We had SO much in common.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a busy one for celebrity deaths.&nbsp; I don\u2019t want to make light of the passing of such luminaries as Adam Rich and Robbie Knievel (Evil\u2019s son).&nbsp; I even observed a moment of silence when I heard about Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s passing \u2013 although, I never thought she looked particularly healthy (or happy).&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-91076","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\/91076","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=91076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91085,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91076\/revisions\/91085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}