{"id":173085,"date":"2024-02-16T22:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T06:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=173085"},"modified":"2024-02-16T22:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T06:18:37","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-edgar-bergen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=173085","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Edgar Bergen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;Edgar John Bergen, February 16, 1903 \u2013 September 30, 1978.\u00a0 Ventriloquist, Comedian, Actor, Vaudevillian &amp; Radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_Bergen\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173086 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Edgar_Bergen_with_Charlie_McCarthy_and_Mortimer_Snerd_1949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.<br \/>\nEarly bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live.<br \/>\nAmbition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;Edgar John Bergen, February 16, 1903 \u2013 September 30, 1978.\u00a0 Ventriloquist, Comedian, Actor, Vaudevillian &amp; Radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. &#8220;Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Edgar_Bergen_with_Charlie_McCarthy_and_Mortimer_Snerd_1949.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173088,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173085\/revisions\/173088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}