{"id":94114,"date":"2025-08-17T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94114"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:37:35","slug":"the-woman-wondered-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/the-woman-wondered-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Wondered Why&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cThe woman looked out her window and realized she still harbored<br \/>\nill will towards the former lover who shattered the antique glass.&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt may have been a romantic gesture, but she was robbed of rainbows<br \/>\nforever.&nbsp; The woman considered taking a trip.&nbsp; But who could housesit?&nbsp;<br \/>\nThere was the gardener, who was taking an inordinate amount of time<br \/>\nplanting a few bulbs.&nbsp; Or maybe the son of a friend who knocked up a<br \/>\nwoman of ample proportions and had a companion named after<br \/>\na theme park.&nbsp; No.&nbsp; The woman would stay home.&nbsp; And write.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd write.&nbsp; And write&#8230;books that nobody would read.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I suspect fans of Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s column are much like fans of <strong>Billy Masters <\/strong>\u2013 not particularly into the bodice-ripper genre.&nbsp;&nbsp; Rule one for writing a show \u2013 have a story you want to tell.&nbsp; Clearly that rule went out the broken window.&nbsp; After 10 hours I\u2019ll never get back, you know what I was left with?&nbsp; A shrug.&nbsp; Fine \u2013 but who cares?&nbsp; I was left with a question \u2013 where does one find this magical karaoke machine that also is preloaded with songs sung by the original artist?&nbsp; I also thought that if one wanted a show about people in their sixties who were interested in sex and the city, why not set it in London and follow the exploits of a certain ex-pat named Samantha?&nbsp; I\u2019d watch that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe woman looked out her window and realized she still harbored ill will towards the former lover who shattered the antique glass.&nbsp; It may have been a romantic gesture, but she was robbed of rainbows forever.&nbsp; The woman considered taking a trip.&nbsp; But who could housesit?&nbsp; There was the gardener, who was taking an inordinate<\/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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94114"}],"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=94114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94123,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94114\/revisions\/94123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}