{"id":3616,"date":"2010-12-13T06:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T10:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2010-12-19T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T19:03:15","slug":"funny-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"Funny Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Germs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3617\" title=\"Germs\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Germs.jpg\" alt=\"Germs\" width=\"473\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Germs.jpg 750w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Germs-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the Feast of Santa Lucia, but I woke up with a nasty flu (ugh) so instead of baking Luciabr\u00f8d, as was my plan, it\u2019s a period of enforced foodless inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is also the birthday of Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925), who has a long and illustrious career in film and television (as well as a sideline in barbershop quartet and 3D animation\u2014who knew?). But I got to know him through reruns of <em>The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>, a cultural touchstone of my childhood and probably the cleverest and most intelligently funny sitcom of its day, certainly ahead of its time (1961-1966) in its approach to religious and racial issues. Some years back I introduced it to my children on DVD, and as a result he has two new young faithful fans.<\/p>\n<p>So tonight we\u2019ll celebrate by watching a favorite episode. You can too, by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/the-dick-van-dyke-show\" target=\"_blank\">hulu for a free download<\/a>. Happy Birthday, Dick Van Dyke! Thanks for the joy and laughter you have brought to my childhood and now to my children\u2019s. As the saying goes, it&#8217;s a gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Feast of Santa Lucia, but I woke up with a nasty flu (ugh) so instead of baking Luciabr\u00f8d, as was my plan, it\u2019s a period of enforced foodless inactivity. However, it is also the birthday of Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925), who has a long and illustrious career in film and television<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3616\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,17,3],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-birthday","tag-penink","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}