{"id":20140,"date":"2015-12-21T07:32:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20140"},"modified":"2021-12-21T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:13:58","slug":"santa-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/21\/santa-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/embed\/39aVTA7a96dk\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in my college days, I worked part time at Equus, a long gone gay bar on 12th Street between Locust and Walnut. They had cabaret acts which is how I met Eartha Kitt, who\u00a0was entertaining at the club. Ms. Kitt was a vegetarian, however &#8211; her dog was not, and I had the pleasure of cooking a steak for him. I think of that every Christmas when I hear this song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my college days, I worked part time at Equus, a long gone gay bar on 12th Street between Locust and Walnut. They had cabaret acts which is how I met Eartha Kitt, who\u00a0was entertaining at the club. Ms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/21\/santa-baby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176,4,104],"tags":[3792,3791,736,3790],"class_list":["post-20140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-news","category-philadelphia","tag-cat-woman","tag-eartha-kitt","tag-equus","tag-gay-bar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5eQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4048,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/06\/hi-yo-sugar-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":20140,"position":0},"title":"Hi &#8211; Yo, Sugar! 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