{"id":2976,"date":"2014-02-17T01:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2014-02-17T05:24:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:24:29","slug":"ohdear-sydney-australia-02122014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Oh\u2026Dear \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 [02\/12\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/temple01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2985\" alt=\"temple01\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/temple01.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/temple01.jpg 707w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/temple01-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a>Everybody knows that everybody dies\u2026 ~ River Song, Doctor Who<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No one lives forever. Logically we all know this; though I\u2019ll admit that it\u2019s not something we care to think about very often. Never-the-less death is a part of life that we must, eventually, all come to accept.<\/p>\n<p>But then, someone leaves us that seems to take a little bit of the light of the world with them. Someone who touched so many generations, and saved so many hearts from despair\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I would be lying if I didn\u2019t say that Shirley Temple had a huge impact on my life, as a performer, as a child, as a person. If that makes me superficial, or cheesy, so be it. It\u2019s true.\u00a0 I wanted to be her, people saying I looked like her or sounded like her when I was a kid was the biggest compliment I could imagine; and as I got older, I came to admire many of the things she stood for.<\/p>\n<p><i>As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we\u2019ll make it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Her passing marks the end of an era, and is a loss for all the people she inspired, lives she touched and hearts she lifted during some of the world\u2019s darkest times.<\/p>\n<p>We have all lost a little bit of light\u2026and the Summerlands has gained another dose of sunshine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows that everybody dies\u2026 ~ River Song, Doctor Who No one lives forever. Logically we all know this; though I\u2019ll admit that it\u2019s not something we care to think about very often. Never-the-less death is a part of life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,72,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-grand-world-voyage-2014","category-reflections-below-the-waterline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-M0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}