{"id":9906,"date":"2009-12-31T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2009-12-30T18:08:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T02:08:59","slug":"ball-drop-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9906","title":{"rendered":"NYC Ball Drop, December 31, 1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sPfrBxHgLmA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sPfrBxHgLmA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8216;Beginning in 1956, Guy Lombardo &#038; His Royal Canadians entertained the US on New Year&#8217;s Eve with a combination of music and the live &#8216;ball drop&#8217; at Midnight. Guy continued this tradition until his death in 1976. His band still played on at CBS Television on New Years for an additional 2 years. (Dick Clark&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Clark%27s_New_Year%27s_Rockin%27_Eve_with_Ryan_Seacrest\" target=\"_blank\">New Years Rockin Eve<\/a> began in 1972 on ABC and still broadcasts annually.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This broadcast began right after the 15-minute news and ran for an hour. Guy plays the music and newsman Robert Trout announces the beginning of the New Year &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; Harsh lighting, a cheap office clock and a World War II searchlight scans the crowd below.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More Ball history <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Times_Square_Ball\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Psst: Buy more Clairol)<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"NYC Ball Drop, December 31, 1957\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9906\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Beginning in 1956, Guy Lombardo &#038; His Royal Canadians entertained the US on New Year&#8217;s Eve with a combination of music and the live &#8216;ball drop&#8217; at Midnight. Guy continued this tradition until his death in 1976. His band still played on at CBS Television on New Years for an additional 2 years. (Dick Clark&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10518,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions\/10518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}