{"id":423,"date":"2019-12-31T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2019-12-31T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:25:40","slug":"the-ghost-of-old-dick-clark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/?page_id=423","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost of Old Dick Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghost of Dick Clark came to me last night, ~ Ron Van Nostrand 12\/31\/2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ghost of Dick Clark came to me last night and asked,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does it feel to be so old?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which was ironic due to the fact,<\/p>\n<p>So many times, not even that long ago,<\/p>\n<p>I had encouraged him from my sofa to, \u201cGive it up,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he hosted his annual New Year\u2019s Special;<\/p>\n<p>Especially when he had become so frail, so weak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now here I am entering my 7<sup>th<\/sup> decade,<\/p>\n<p>Clinging to those few gifts of life that still bring me joy,<\/p>\n<p>Like old Dick Clark just hanging on until my final ball drops,<\/p>\n<p>Hoping not to be wished out of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghost of Dick Clark came to me last night, ~ Ron Van Nostrand 12\/31\/2019 &nbsp; The Ghost of Dick Clark came to me last night and asked, \u201cHow does it feel to be so old?\u201d Which was ironic due to the fact, So many times, not even that long ago, I had encouraged him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ronvannostrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}