{"id":11986,"date":"2016-12-09T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2016-08-19T21:24:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:24:24","slug":"gossip-friday-keeping-spirits-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/?p=11986","title":{"rendered":"Gossip Friday: Keeping Spirits Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11988\" src=\"http:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ccarole100w.jpg\" alt=\"clark gable carole lombard\" width=\"668\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ccarole100w.jpg 668w, https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ccarole100w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From December 1941:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Through these tense days, Carole Lombard has certainly kept the crew and cast on the stage of &#8220;To Be Or Not To Be&#8221;in a howling good humor with all her gags.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When I asked her what she&#8217;d do if she caught a Japanese parachutist landing on her ranch, she said, &#8220;Let &#8217;em come! Pappy and I haven&#8217;t been banging away at ducks and skeets all these years for nothing. We&#8217;ve put the ranch on a wartime basis, sold a couple of horses, and growing vegetables instead of alfalfa.&#8221; Atta girl, Carole!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And very soon, too, you&#8217;ll be seeing Carole and Clark stumping the country, selling war bonds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, only Carole&#8230;..sadly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From December 1941: Through these tense days, Carole Lombard has certainly kept the crew and cast on the stage of &#8220;To Be Or Not To Be&#8221;in a howling good humor with all her gags.\u00a0 When I asked her what she&#8217;d do if she caught a Japanese parachutist landing on her ranch, she said, &#8220;Let &#8217;em come! Pappy and I haven&#8217;t been banging away at ducks and skeets all these years for nothing. We&#8217;ve put the ranch on a wartime basis, sold a couple of horses, and growing vegetables instead of alfalfa.&#8221; Atta girl, Carole! And very soon, too, you&#8217;ll be seeing Carole and Clark stumping the country, selling war bonds. ____ Well, only Carole&#8230;..sadly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,4],"class_list":["post-11986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gossip","tag-carole-lombard","tag-clark-gable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11989,"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions\/11989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearmrgable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}