{"id":2615,"date":"2009-12-16T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2009-12-16T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T15:57:13","slug":"dont-be-dick-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be Dick Clark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a news story last week that<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesshollywood.com\/dick-clark-and-ryan-seacrest-to-rock-in-new-year-through-2010_article_10770\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Clark<\/a> <\/strong>is going to be doing some New Years Eve Festivities again this year.\u00a0 Maybe on the Codger Network.\u00a0 He has been doing it for 38 years.\u00a0 That is too long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"4057672150_27c5c350f7\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/4190586688\/4057672150_27c5c350f7.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2678\/4190586688_5a6a8a7c81_t.jpg?resize=100%2C91\" alt=\"4057672150_27c5c350f7\" width=\"100\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Dickclarke_big\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/4189837255\/dickclarke_big.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2773\/4189837255_83678f370a_t.jpg?resize=95%2C100\" alt=\"Dickclarke_big\" width=\"95\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t make Dick Clark stop making a fool of himself.\u00a0 But we can do a Dick Clark analysis of our own lives and let go of some things that we have been doing for decades.\u00a0 For example this year Nurit and I have passed Thanksgiving to Lillian.\u00a0 On the other side of the ledger Nurit&#8217;s Dad is having a Dick Clark moment and can&#8217;t give up trying to maintain his own PC&#8217;s even though he can&#8217;t get to them physically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t be Dick Clark!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a news story last week that Dick Clark is going to be doing some New Years Eve Festivities again this year.\u00a0 Maybe on the Codger Network.\u00a0 He has been doing it for 38 years.\u00a0 That is too long. We can&#8217;t make Dick Clark stop making a fool of himself.\u00a0 But we can do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-Gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}