{"id":32039,"date":"2014-07-25T00:33:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=32039"},"modified":"2014-07-25T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:33:17","slug":"the-rat-pack-was-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/07\/the-rat-pack-was-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rat Pack Was in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32041\" title=\"IMG_6577\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_6577-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_6577-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_6577-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Rat Pack the group included\u00a0Frank Sinatra,\u00a0Dean Martin,\u00a0Sammy Davis, Jr.,\u00a0Joey Bishop,\u00a0Peter Lawford, and, for a brief stint,\u00a0Norman Fell.\u00a0Marilyn Monroe,\u00a0Angie Dickinson,\u00a0Juliet Prowse, and Shirley MacLaine\u00a0were often referred to as the &#8220;Rat Pack Mascots&#8221;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-32040\" title=\"IMG_6610\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_6610-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_6610-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_6610-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Often, when one of the members was scheduled to give a performance, the rest of the Pack would show up for an impromptu show, causing much excitement among audiences, resulting in return visits. They sold out almost all of their appearances, and people would come pouring into Las Vegas, sometimes sleeping in cars and hotel lobbies when they could not find rooms, just to be part of the Rat Pack entertainment experience.<\/p>\n<p>Today one of the new Rat Pack members was at Sterling House in Lehigh Acres singing the songs of Sinatra, Martin and Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rat Pack the group included\u00a0Frank Sinatra,\u00a0Dean Martin,\u00a0Sammy Davis, Jr.,\u00a0Joey Bishop,\u00a0Peter Lawford, and, for a brief stint,\u00a0Norman Fell.\u00a0Marilyn Monroe,\u00a0Angie Dickinson,\u00a0Juliet Prowse, and Shirley MacLaine\u00a0were often referred to as the &#8220;Rat&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}