{"id":133516,"date":"2017-11-28T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=133516"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:22:02","slug":"falstaff-was-what-you-might-call-a-swinger-in-the-late-15th-century-they-didnt-call-em-swingers-but-they-swung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=133516","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You might say that Falstaff was the great-great-grandfather of all the flower children. He was a bohemian and he was a bum. A beautiful bum.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VJ6v7GHYDbM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nI wrote about this clip a long time ago, of Orson Welles transforming himself into Falstaff at a makeup mirror, talking about Falstaff, and then turning INTO Falstaff &#8211; a &#8220;bit&#8221; that appeared on <i>The Dean Martin Show<\/i>. Then the clip vanished from YouTube. I don&#8217;t know why. I mourned the loss. Because this is such a unique &#8220;bit,&#8221; and only Welles could do it &#8211; with the same amount of unashamed bombast, humor, and confidence. Also: once upon a time, we lived on a planet where stuff like this happened on network television. What?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: Enjoy. It may vanish from Youtube again, so you should jump on it. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a clip to submit to. The world is so fast. Something like this requires your full attention. It&#8217;s worth it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about this clip a long time ago, of Orson Welles transforming himself into Falstaff at a makeup mirror, talking about Falstaff, and then turning INTO Falstaff &#8211; a &#8220;bit&#8221; that appeared on The Dean Martin Show. Then the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=133516\">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":[7,31],"tags":[125,107,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133516"}],"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=133516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133520,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133516\/revisions\/133520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}