{"id":7290,"date":"2012-08-25T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2017-02-26T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T12:59:26","slug":"dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t judge a book by its cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you recognize this person?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/dam\/assets\/120820073610-phyllis-diller-1960s-01-vertical-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/08\/why-do-so-many-pretty-female-comedians-pretend-theyre-ugly\/261510\/#.UDetlteZ7Sc.twitter\">This story<\/a> was a bit of a revelation to me. I did recall that the woman above as a much older women, famous for being ugly, got a face lift. Its obvious she didn&#8217;t need one when she was younger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Playboy&#8217;s editors thought it would be funny, she said, and what better way to get a laugh than by sending out seductive centerfold photos of a hilariously tacky, impressively unsexy woman? It seemed like a foolproof plan. There was, however, one problem: Diller, who had long obscured her figure with the trademark ill-fitting lame&#8217; dresses she often wore onstage, turned out to have a shapely, sexy physique&#8211;and a pretty face, too, under all her clownish makeup. To everyone&#8217;s bewilderment (except maybe Phyllis Diller&#8217;s), Phyllis Diller was a bombshell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you recognize this person? This story was a bit of a revelation to me. I did recall that the woman above as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19974,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}