{"id":1058,"date":"2009-01-23T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2009-01-23T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T05:30:00","slug":"better-to-have-loved-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/better-to-have-loved-and-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Better to Have Loved and Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why didn&#8217;t you bitches tell me that my 60-year-old, African-American identical twin was on  <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/latenight\/jimmykimmel\/index\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>? I would have skipped a Law &amp; Order rerun or ten to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/1412731\/veatrice_rice_of_jimmy_kimmel_live.html\">security guard Veatrice Rice, whom I discovered only after she died of cancer<\/a>. Someday, I hope to be remembered as Jimmy remembers Veatrice while introducing this tribute clip: &#8220;Our security guard Veatrice was not a sentimental person&#8230;but &#8230; actually she had a very foul mouth, to be honest with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TZDGtlN9bj4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TZDGtlN9bj4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >1:54 to John McCain: &#8220;F&#8212; you, old man! Back to you a&#8212;&#8212;- in the studio.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/dlisted.com\/node\/30340\">Dlisted<\/a> for showing me what I missed)<\/span><\/span> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why didn&#8217;t you bitches tell me that my 60-year-old, African-American identical twin was on Jimmy Kimmel Live? I would have skipped a Law &amp; Order rerun or ten to check out security guard Veatrice Rice, whom I discovered only after she died of cancer. Someday, I hope to be remembered as Jimmy remembers Veatrice while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/better-to-have-loved-and-lost\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,130,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-obits","category-swearing","category-tv","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}