{"id":22680,"date":"2005-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/famous-people\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T06:00:00","slug":"famous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/famous-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a story at my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacknewton.net\">Jack&#8217; site<\/a> about famous people that he has either met or been in close proximity to, and it got me thinking about the famous people I have seen first-person. This list is just random sightings, no organized events.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Kelly (Buffalo Bills QB): LAX; I was coming back from Hawaii and there were many football players on the same plane with me, returning to the mainland after participating in the Pro-bowl. He was about 8-feet tall.<\/p>\n<p>James Worthy (Laker star): Furaibo Japanese Restaurant, West L.A.; &#8220;Big-Game James&#8221; was eating by himself at the sushi bar, while my friend Mike, Mariko, and I drank Sapporo.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Winkler (The Fonz): Paramount Studios; saw him in the commisary when I was visiting my bro, who worked there. He was about 5-feet tall.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Knight (Peter Brady): Hermosa Beach; I saw him eating pizza with a couple other people at a little pizzeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a story at my friend Jack&#8217; site about famous people that he has either met or been in close proximity to, and it got me thinking about the famous people I have seen first-person. This list is just random sightings, no organized events. Jim Kelly (Buffalo Bills QB): LAX; I was coming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/23\/famous-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Famous People<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5TO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}