{"id":1364,"date":"2006-11-26T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2006-11-26T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T22:16:00","slug":"man-of-the-year-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Man of the Year Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/3323\/3688\/1600\/964154\/z112606beatty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/3323\/3688\/400\/869455\/z112606beatty.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">My buddy, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Big&#8221; John Beatty<\/span>, although best known for his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">comic book art<\/span> [<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Punisher<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Captain America<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Batman<\/span>, etc.] does, from time to time, write a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">pretty funny blog<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>Big John<\/span> has started updating again.  His most recent post looks at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">People Magazine&#8217;s<\/span> two time <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sexiest Man of the Year<\/span> award winners <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">George Clooney<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Johnny Depp<\/span>.  Seems that since <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Big John<\/span> has so many things in common with them, he feels that his time as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sexiest Man of the Year<\/span> must be coming.  Read <a href=\"http:\/\/bigbeatty.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/george-johnny-and-john.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">John&#8217;s post<\/span><\/a> and then come on back for my comments.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, back so soon?<\/p>\n<p>I did some research and contacted a friend in the know.  He called me back and the conversation went like this:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mr. X<\/span>: &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Beatty<\/span> is on the list to be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">People&#8217;s Sexiest Man of the Year<\/span>.  The trouble is there are a few people ahead of him.  Folks like: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Andy Dick<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Abe Vigoda<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Don Rickles<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rex Reed<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jackie Gleason<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Me<\/span>: &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jackie Gleason<\/span>! <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jackie Gleason<\/span> has been dead for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mr. X<\/span>: &#8220;Yeah, but even now he&#8217;s still sexier than <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Beatty<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Me<\/span>: &#8220;Wow.  That&#8217;s rough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mr. X<\/span>: &#8220;Yeah, but <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Craig<\/span>, there&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">one thing<\/span> you need to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Me<\/span>: &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mr. X<\/span>: &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Beatty<\/span>&#8216;s ranked ahead of you on the list.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy, &#8220;Big&#8221; John Beatty, although best known for his comic book art [The Punisher, Captain America, Batman, etc.] does,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}