{"id":92070,"date":"2023-12-03T18:52:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T02:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92070"},"modified":"2023-12-03T18:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T02:52:43","slug":"not-so-golden-bachelor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/12\/03\/not-so-golden-bachelor\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Golden Bachelor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I preface my next story by saying I have not followed <strong><em>The Bachelor<\/em><\/strong> since <strong>Chris Harrison<\/strong>\u2019s departure.&nbsp; So, no, I have not watched a single episode of <strong><em>The Golden Bachelor<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; But I have seen <strong>Gerry <\/strong>(curiously pronounced \u201cGary\u201d) on talk shows, and I\u2019ve had a feeling there\u2019s something\u2026well, \u201cfishy\u201d about him.&nbsp; Last week, <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> did a deep dive on his background, and all was not rosy.&nbsp; Despite statements like \u201cI haven\u2019t dated in 45 years\u201d, he actually began a three-year relationship with a woman\u2026a month after his wife\u2019s death in 2017!&nbsp; The woman in question presented a text from Gerry which caught my eye: \u201cDamn, I go to bed at night thinking of you and wake up in the morning thinking of you.\u201d&nbsp; Not the most scintillating prose, but it was sent less than three months after his wife\u2019s death.&nbsp; Please understand, I\u2019m not one to cast stones.&nbsp; I\u2019ve been known to hit on the bereaved during memorial services!&nbsp; It should also be noted that Gerry allegedly dumped this woman after she gained about ten pounds before his high school reunion.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m not taking you to the reunion looking like <em>that<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; Proving, once again, all that glitters is not gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I preface my next story by saying I have not followed The Bachelor since Chris Harrison\u2019s departure.&nbsp; So, no, I have not watched a single episode of The Golden Bachelor.&nbsp; But I have seen Gerry (curiously pronounced \u201cGary\u201d) on talk shows, and I\u2019ve had a feeling there\u2019s something\u2026well, \u201cfishy\u201d about him.&nbsp; Last week, The Hollywood<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92070","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\/92070","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=92070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92071,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92070\/revisions\/92071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}