{"id":6063,"date":"2024-03-23T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2024-03-23T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T14:43:25","slug":"going-green-tom-lisanti-on-his-new-book-ryans-hope-an-oral-history-of-daytimes-groundbreaking-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/going-green-tom-lisanti-on-his-new-book-ryans-hope-an-oral-history-of-daytimes-groundbreaking-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Green! Tom Lisanti On His New Book, Ryan\u2019s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime\u2019s Groundbreaking Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Interview on Out NW, read more <a href=\"https:\/\/outnw.com\/going-green-tom-lisanti-on-his-new-book-ryans-hope-an-oral-history-of-daytimes-groundbreaking-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this being St Patrick\u2019s Day, I wanted to remind people that there once was a soap that would be celebrating the holiday in the most festive way possible. Even when the show, Ryan\u2019s Hope (1975-1989), after 13 years, went off the air. Who could forget the show\u2019s matriarch, Maeve Ryan (Played by Broadway legend, Helen Gallagher) singing the song, \u201cDanny Boy\u201d as the last frame faded to black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>When Tom Lisanti\u2019s book, Ryan\u2019s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime\u2019s Groundbreaking Soap, came out last fall, I requested a copy, as someone with Irish roots, I started watching the show with my mom in 1976, and became an avid fan in 1980. I chatted with Lisanti\u2019s through email this past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Interview on Out NW, read more here. With this being St Patrick\u2019s Day, I wanted to remind people that there once was a soap that would be celebrating the holiday in the most festive way possible. Even when the show, Ryan\u2019s Hope (1975-1989), after 13 years, went off the air. Who could forget the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}