{"id":3862,"date":"2012-05-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:17:23","slug":"bullshot-brian-beatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-brian-beatty\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Brian Beatty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nCW:<\/strong> Should we expect to see Ruth and the boys touring the U.S. anytime soon?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BB:<\/strong> I\u2019m sad to report Ruth broke up the band. According to the story I heard, in the moments prior to a sudden onset of dementia, she experienced a short, bright burst of clarity, realizing that her boys had been coasting on the coattails of her talent all along\u2014that their hearts weren\u2019t really in the music she adored so. Rather than put them in the awkward position of lying to her yet again, she broke up the band, in the middle of a half-full Tuesday night happy hour. Her sons had been dipping into her purse for cash to cover the costs of their myriad bad habits, too, but she remains unaware of that. Ruth now spends her days slouched behind a piano at a Medicare-subsidized assisted-living facility where the employees live in fear of her hook. She never actually touches the piano\u2019s keyboard. Ruth\u2019s sons have all wound up in jail, which should surprise nobody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of <a title=\"My Chinese Suit\" href=\"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/brian-beatty\/my-chinese-suit\/\">&#8220;My Chinese Suit&#8221;<\/a> goes behind the music of the best jazz band this side of the hotel bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","writer-christopher-wolford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17696,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/17696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}