{"id":1764,"date":"2011-08-05T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2011-08-06T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T02:57:59","slug":"i-still-love-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/i-still-love-lucy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Still Love Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 6th would\u00a0 be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/entertainment\/6828798-421\/100-years-of-lucille-ball.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday<\/a>, but unfortunately she passed away in 1989.\u00a0 For an over-the-top writer like me, Lucy's always been a real inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy inspired legions of folks, including other celebrities.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body.textrr\">\u201cGod wanted the world to laugh and He invented you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body.textrr\">\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/entertainment\/6828798-421\/100-years-of-lucille-ball.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sammy Davis Jr., speaking to Lucille Ball at a 1984 tribute in her honor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"body.textrr\">I've described my writing style as similar to\u00a0\"I Love Lucy\" except that\u00a0the hero\u00a0is Lucy and the heroine is Desi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"body.textrr\">Happy Birthday, Lucy.\u00a0 I bet you're just\u00a0making 'em laugh on a bigger stage now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6th would\u00a0 be Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday, but unfortunately she passed away in 1989.\u00a0 For an over-the-top writer like me, Lucy's always been a real inspiration. Lucy inspired legions of folks, including other celebrities. \u201cGod wanted the world to laugh and He invented you.\u201d \u2014 Sammy Davis Jr., speaking to Lucille Ball at a <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/i-still-love-lucy\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"I Still Love Lucy\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}