{"id":267,"date":"2008-09-23T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/09\/wishing-carol-channing-a-speedy-recovery.html"},"modified":"2008-09-23T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:12:00","slug":"wishing-carol-channing-a-speedy-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Wishing Carol Channing a speedy recovery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=32895\">reported<\/a> today that the 87 year old legend has broken her femur and hip in a fall, which caused her to cancel a performance scheduled for this Thursday, marking the first time that Channing has ever missed a performance in her entire career. Channing has been the epitome of &#8220;the show must go on&#8221; professionalism, having gone on with broken ribs, post surgery and I read once she even went on in a wheel chair. (I seem to recall her recounting how the one time she threw up in decades was during an inflight showing of the film adaptation of <em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em>) Though she has gone on in the past, the doctor&#8217;s insisted this time she take some time to rest and recuperate. Hopefully, she&#8217;ll be back up on her feet in no time. Get well soon, Carol!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bfBnwv5iOS8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bfBnwv5iOS8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been reported today that the 87 year old legend has broken her femur and hip in a fall, which caused her to cancel a performance scheduled for this Thursday, marking the first time that Channing has ever missed a performance in her entire career. Channing has been the epitome of &#8220;the show must go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wishing Carol Channing a speedy recovery!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1812],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-carol-channing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}