{"id":151993,"date":"2025-10-21T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=151993"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:23:47","slug":"happy-birthday-carrie-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=151993","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf my life wasn&#8217;t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.\u201d &#8212; Carrie Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/giphy-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-151994\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s her birthday today. I miss her. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/balder-and-dash\/carrie-fisher-1956-2016\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tribute I wrote to Fisher when she died<\/a>, focusing primarily on her writing. I also reviewed the documentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/bright-lights-starring-carrie-fisher-and-debbie-reynolds-2017\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s her birthday today. I miss her. Here is the tribute I wrote to Fisher when she died, focusing primarily on her writing. I also reviewed the documentary, Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. &nbsp; &nbsp; Thank you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=151993\">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":[7,15,4,39,9],"tags":[1682,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151993"}],"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=151993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194686,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151993\/revisions\/194686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}