{"id":1323,"date":"2008-03-06T23:22:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2008-03-06T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T23:22:49","slug":"the_appeal_of_carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/06\/the_appeal_of_carson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appeal of Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years back, I devoted a pretty <a title=\"Heeeeeeeere\u2019s\u2026 Well, You Know\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2005\/01\/heeeeeeeeres_well_you_know\/\">large chunk of copy<\/a> to trying to explain what I thought was so cool about the late Johnny Carson.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Aydlette <a href=\"http:\/\/welcometola.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/johnny-carson-and-dyan-cannon-what-pair.html\">sums it up<\/a> in a single line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was something adult, sophisticated and boyishly wink-wink naughty all at the same time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he provides some video evidence of what he&#8217;s talking about, too:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XH72S9fRa84&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"355\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XH72S9fRa84&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>An appropriate thing to post at this time of night, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years back, I devoted a pretty large chunk of copy to trying to explain what I thought was so cool about the late Johnny Carson. Larry Aydlette sums it up in a single line: There was something adult, sophisticated and boyishly wink-wink naughty all at the same time. And he provides some video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}