{"id":10016,"date":"2010-04-11T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2010-07-22T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T01:31:17","slug":"r-i-p-dixie-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10016","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Dixie Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"r.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/r.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI always loved her.  She may have SEEMED to be the most &#8220;together&#8221; on <i>Designing Women<\/i>, but when she lost it, she lost it bigger than anyone, in a way that had you wanting to cheer and also fall off the couch.  Her timing was impeccable.  I loved that character, she was my favorite on the show.  There is something so wonderful about seeing such a dignified together woman repeatedly LOSE it.  She is so hot-tempered and loyal, she just cannot help herself.  I have been unable to find my favorite moment of hers from the show on Youtube: it has to do with her stalling before the crowd at a wedding (who&#8217;s getting married? One of the other women?), and for some reason there is a delay, so she goes out there to make a speech, but then she finds herself suddenly singing &#8220;This Little Light of Mine&#8221; &#8211; does anyone remember this episode?  I am laughing just thinking about it &#8211; the baffled guests at the wedding, like: &#8220;why isn&#8217;t the wedding starting, and who is this crazy woman turning it into a cabaret act?&#8221; &#8211; but I loved this piece on Entertainment Weekly:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2010\/04\/11\/dixie-carter-ripdesigning-women\/\">Dixie Carter&#8217;s 5 best &#8216;Designing Women&#8217; moments<\/a>.  Clips are included, so enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>My condolences to her husband, Hal Holbrooke, and rest in peace, Miss Dixie Carter.  Thanks for the laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always loved her. She may have SEEMED to be the most &#8220;together&#8221; on Designing Women, but when she lost it, she lost it bigger than anyone, in a way that had you wanting to cheer and also fall off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24805,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions\/24805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}