{"id":2655,"date":"2005-03-18T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2024-10-27T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:57:38","slug":"out-of-the-desert-emerged-dorothy-hamill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Out of the desert emerged Dorothy Hamill&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love any article that includes that sentence.  And here it is &#8211; the story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2114927\/\">Rise and Fall of the Ice Capades<\/a>.  I had no idea that Pat Robertson owned the Ice Capades.  Who knew??<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I went to the Ice Capades as a child.  It was a huge treat.  I am sure it was the cheesiest thing ever.  But we loved it.  It was a big &#8220;birthday party&#8221; thing.  &#8220;It&#8217;s so and so&#8217;s birthday &#8211; she&#8217;s taking all of us to the Ice Capades at the Civic Center!&#8221;  (Now called The Dunkin Donuts Center &#8211; a nomenclature I will NEVER accept.  NO.  It is &#8220;the Civic Center&#8221;.  Forever.  Grrrr.  I hate that corporate re-naming shite.)<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of the Ice Capades, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/hellonice\/71\/index.html\">I feel compelled to link to this.<\/a>  Please please &#8230; if you haven&#8217;t scrolled through this gallery yet &#8211; I urge you to do so.  And don&#8217;t skip Lileks&#8217; commentary.  It&#8217;s laugh-out-loud funny.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be an ice capades theme today.  <a href=\"http:\/\/gofugyourself.typepad.com\/go_fug_yourself\/2005\/03\/blu_fug.html\">Check this out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love any article that includes that sentence. And here it is &#8211; the story of the Rise and Fall of the Ice Capades. I had no idea that Pat Robertson owned the Ice Capades. Who knew?? Of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}