{"id":218,"date":"2007-07-18T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:38:10","slug":"bye-bye-bob-billings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Bye, Bye Bob Billings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Not to be outdone by Bob Barker<\/em><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brockville.com\">Brockville<\/a>&#8216;s <strong>Bob Billings<\/strong> of <strong>Billings Home Hardware<\/strong> is finally packing up all that stuff out front of his store and closing up shop.  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Rich Little (has been) in quite a number of times&#8230; <\/h2>\n<p>Bob Billings on his most memorable customer in the past 43 years<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But as we bid farewell to one city icon, we pay tribute to two others.  In his own weird way, the Invincible <strong>Vince Brockvlog<\/strong> seamlessly ties in the recent release of Healy &#038; Orr&#8217;s new CD &#8220;Old Dirt Roads&#8221; while he interviews Bob Billings&#8217; neighbours.  <\/p>\n<p>And finally, a young tribute band to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healyandorr.com\">Healy &#038; Orr<\/a>, <strong>&#8220;Healier and Orrier&#8221;<\/strong> (<strong>Zach Havens<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Haggith<\/strong>) give us a little sweet street beat; unplugged.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 478px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-218-1\" width=\"478\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/070718.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/070718.mp4\">https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/070718.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be outdone by Bob Barker, Brockville&#8216;s Bob Billings of Billings Home Hardware is finally packing up all that stuff out front of his store and closing up shop. Rich Little (has been) in quite a number of times&#8230; Bob Billings on his most memorable customer in the past 43 years But as we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/?p=218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bye, Bye Bob Billings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brockvlog.com\/bvlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}