{"id":211,"date":"2009-03-23T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2009-03-23T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:39:03","slug":"papal-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Papal Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy legend&#8211;and right-leaning diabetes and animal rights spokesperson&#8211;Mary Tyler Moore has been dancing on some tabletops on behalf of her new memoir, &#8220;Growing Up Again.&#8221; She got pretty dishy with Kevin Sessums in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/celebrity\/2009\/03\/mary-tyler-moore-html\">Parade<\/a> this weekend, telling him that when she was separated from her second husband Grant Tinker, Frank Sinatra came onto her once:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frank had his assistant phone me and ask if I would take a call from him. I said, &#8216;Please, by all means.&#8217; For two days, no call. Then, Grant and I were out having dinner and thinking about getting back together. Not two feet away from us sat Frank Sinatra. He came over to say hello. I never heard from him after that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then the bombshell:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only other man who ever looked at me the way Frank did was&#8211;and don&#8217;t take this the wrong way&#8211;Pope John Paul II.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy legend&#8211;and right-leaning diabetes and animal rights spokesperson&#8211;Mary Tyler Moore has been dancing on some tabletops on behalf of her new memoir, &#8220;Growing Up Again.&#8221; She got pretty dishy with Kevin Sessums in Parade this weekend, telling him that when she was separated from her second husband Grant Tinker, Frank Sinatra came onto her once: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}