{"id":27476,"date":"2014-02-07T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27476"},"modified":"2016-10-26T19:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T23:40:42","slug":"hail-and-farewell-old-friend-johnny-carson-would-have-been-proud-of-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27476","title":{"rendered":"Hail And Farewell Old Friend&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hail And Farewell Old Friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Carson would have been proud of the way Jay Leno continued the legacy of &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217;. So would Steve Allen,  Jack Paar and the man who had the vision to bring it to life in 1954&#8230;NBC&#8217;s Pat Weaver. On September 24, the show will celebrate it&#8217;s 60th Anniversary. Last night&#8217;s show was something special and Billy Crystal was the perfect friend to help Jay bring it in for a very sweet and heart felt final landing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/632584970112389\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hail-And-Farewell-Old-Friend...-Johnny-Carson-would-have-been-proud-of-the-way\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/632589193445300\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hail And Farewell Old Friend&#8230; Johnny Carson would have been proud of the way Jay Leno continued the legacy of &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217;. So would Steve Allen, Jack Paar and the man who had the vision to bring it to life in 1954&#8230;NBC&#8217;s Pat Weaver. On September 24, the show will celebrate it&#8217;s 60th Anniversary. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[827,825,782,847,826],"class_list":["post-27476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-jack-paar","tag-johnny-carson","tag-nbc","tag-pat-weaver","tag-steve-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}