{"id":49652,"date":"2012-02-16T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=49652"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:06:13","slug":"elvis-philosophy-for-a-happy-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=49652","title":{"rendered":"Elvis&#8217; Philosophy For a Happy Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=49653\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49653\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzft1pj6uK1r4fbz5o1_1280-400x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tumblr_lzft1pj6uK1r4fbz5o1_1280\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzft1pj6uK1r4fbz5o1_1280-400x307.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzft1pj6uK1r4fbz5o1_1280-100x76.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzft1pj6uK1r4fbz5o1_1280-200x153.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzft1pj6uK1r4fbz5o1_1280.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Elvis and Pat Perry, his hairdresser\/friend<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Pat Perry, the Beverly Hills hairdresser who ended up going to work for Elvis, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I started cutting men&#8217;s hair, I started cutting some of the guys hair around [Elvis] and he didn&#8217;t want to miss out on anything so he says, &#8216;You gotta cut my hair.&#8217;  That scared me to death.  But I did it and he loved it.  I traveled with him wherever he went and [cut his hair] whenever he needed it. He kept me around because he liked me.  It was fun. He was like my big brother. I wish that everybody would have a chance to share the life of a man like him.  One night he wrote down on a piece of paper his philosophy for a happy life for me&#8230;  I miss him a lot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=49654\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49654\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzftn7bHEw1r4fbz5o1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tumblr_lzftn7bHEw1r4fbz5o1_1280\" width=\"694\" height=\"532\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzftn7bHEw1r4fbz5o1_1280.jpg 694w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzftn7bHEw1r4fbz5o1_1280-100x76.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzftn7bHEw1r4fbz5o1_1280-200x153.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tumblr_lzftn7bHEw1r4fbz5o1_1280-400x306.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Elvis&#8217; philosophy for a happy life, 1972<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis and Pat Perry, his hairdresser\/friend Pat Perry, the Beverly Hills hairdresser who ended up going to work for Elvis, says: &#8220;When I started cutting men&#8217;s hair, I started cutting some of the guys hair around [Elvis] and he didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=49652\">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],"tags":[2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652"}],"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=49652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49658,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652\/revisions\/49658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}