{"id":130802,"date":"2017-08-11T21:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T01:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=130802"},"modified":"2017-08-11T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T01:35:41","slug":"elvis-week-commences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=130802","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Week Commences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=130803\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130803\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/giphy-1-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130803\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not big on commemorating death-dates. I prefer the birth dates. But August 16th is the 40th anniversary of Elvis&#8217; death at the age of 42. Been working on a big essay about him scheduled to go up next week at an undisclosed outlet. I pitched it, and they took it, bless them. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been Elvis 24\/7 around here for 2 weeks. Buried in research and viewing. So much fun. But exhausting. <\/p>\n<p>For Hope, too. I mean, look at this tableau.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=130804\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130804\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DG9VtEdWsAIORP4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DG9VtEdWsAIORP4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DG9VtEdWsAIORP4-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DG9VtEdWsAIORP4-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DG9VtEdWsAIORP4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DG9VtEdWsAIORP4-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s something emotional about digging down to write about him. There always has been. Whatever it is that my obsession for this man taps into &#8230; it goes very deep.<\/p>\n<p>It has something to do with joy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not big on commemorating death-dates. I prefer the birth dates. But August 16th is the 40th anniversary of Elvis&#8217; death at the age of 42. Been working on a big essay about him scheduled to go up next week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=130802\">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":[17,23],"tags":[2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130802"}],"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=130802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130806,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130802\/revisions\/130806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}