{"id":54,"date":"2006-12-06T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T14:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2006-12-06T22:14:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T04:14:53","slug":"it-being-that-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"It being that time of year &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself reminded of the Bob Hope Christmas specials. One sketch I recall (from the late 1960s or early 1970s, I think) had him and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyancannon.com\/\">Dyan Cannon<\/a> portraying an unhappily married couple. His character was a sot, and hers was a shrew.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the sketch, as he was fixing himself a drink, she asked, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it a little early for that?&#8221; His response was, &#8220;Whaddya mean, early? It&#8217;s December, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;ve remembered that in hopes that I&#8217;d be able to use the line in something other than a reference to the sketch. I further suppose that I&#8217;d have more chance of success if I drank more. Ah, the sacrifices we make (or don&#8217;t) for our art!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Something went wrong with the link I had to a website about\u00a0the Bob Hope Christmas specials, and it took some of the text with it. I&#8217;ve rewritten that\u00a0part of the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself reminded of the Bob Hope Christmas specials. One sketch I recall (from the late 1960s or early 1970s, I think) had him and Dyan Cannon portraying an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}