{"id":548,"date":"2007-10-20T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/10\/20\/joey-bishop-thank-you-for-ending-it\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T20:04:39","slug":"joey-bishop-thank-you-for-ending-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/joey-bishop-thank-you-for-ending-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Bishop: Thank You For Ending It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"ratpack.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ratpack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image547\" height=\"96\" alt=\"ratpack.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ratpack.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for Joey Bishop to die, not that I dislike him personally, but to mark the official end of the Rat Pack. Maybe now I can live, as Isabella Linton said to Heathcliff. Hy hatred of the Rat Pack has been well-documented, but I don&#8217;t get much sympathy for the torment it has caused me. Be gone, Rat Pack! The hep party is finally over.<\/p>\n<p>When a young friend looked over my shoulder at this picture of the Rat Pack,&nbsp;\u00a0he asked what Peter Lawford did. All I could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadeath.com\/Deceased\/l\/Peter%20Lawford\/lawford.htm\" target=\"_blank\">think<\/a> of was that he bothered Marilyn Monroe. Did he do anything else?<\/p>\n<p>In other memory lapses, I was trying to recall the name of Benazir Bhutto&#8217;s father and came up empty. My mother-in-law suggested Nehru, which made sense, because I remember him wearing a Nehru Jacket! Later, I asked my ex-husband, who answered Zia-ul-Haq. I was really impressed by this and gave him a high five. Now I know that the real answer is of course <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto\" target=\"_blank\">Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for Joey Bishop to die, not that I dislike him personally, but to mark the official end of the Rat Pack. Maybe now I can live, as Isabella Linton said to Heathcliff. Hy hatred of the Rat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/joey-bishop-thank-you-for-ending-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-8Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}