{"id":2580,"date":"2009-06-29T06:14:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2009-06-29T06:14:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:14:34","slug":"dropping-like-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/dropping-like-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping Like Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/06\/farrah-fawcett1.jpg\" alt=\"Farrah Fawcett's Classic Poster\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Seems like it&#8217;s not a good time to be a celebrity, they&#8217;re dying left and right. With all the hoo-ha going on around this &#8220;Michael Jackson was the best performer ever!&#8221; NOT! I thought I&#8217;d weigh in with the one passing that actually had any connection for me, that was Farrah Fawcett. Not that I knew her, I didn&#8217;t. But I sure did spend time looking at her poster!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNo claims of best actress ever, no claims of most attractive woman, no claims of best human being, none of that is necessary. But for a heterosexual male of my age raised in the US, Farrah was for many, the first big celebrity crush. Looking back on it now, the 1970&#8217;s style is dated (she certainly inspired a whole generation of females to have &#8220;feathered&#8221; hair in the following years.) I remember watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073972\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/a> just to get a glimpse of Farrah.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile I&#8217;m sad at her passing, I can&#8217;t help but wonder if it provided some relief given her protracted illness and treatments. All I can say thanks for the memories Farrah.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like it&#8217;s not a good time to be a celebrity, they&#8217;re dying left and right. With all the hoo-ha going on around this &#8220;Michael Jackson was the best performer ever!&#8221; NOT! I thought I&#8217;d weigh in with the one passing that actually had any connection for me, that was Farrah Fawcett. Not that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[912,913,910,911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}