{"id":3933,"date":"2024-02-20T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:34:54","slug":"3933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=3933","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tolley, who had grown up playing the piano, jumped straight into it. He came to the stage, singing \u201cMemory\u201d from the hit musical Cats. He garnered a standing ovation from the audience and gained renown for his unexpected performance.<\/p>\n<p>The day following the event, Tolley\u2019s phone started calling constantly. People phoned him with offers to play roles in films, cruise ship employment, and other opportunities. A accidental encounter on a late-night talk program had altered his life forever. The story of Tolley\u2019s unexpected triumph serves as a reminder that we should constantly be ready to seize the opportunities and challenges that life brings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Tolleys 1st performance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WFw3NDZ1R6o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolley, who had grown up playing the piano, jumped straight into it. He came to the stage, singing \u201cMemory\u201d from the hit musical Cats. He garnered a standing ovation from the audience and gained renown for his unexpected performance. The day following the event, Tolley\u2019s phone started calling constantly. People phoned him with offers to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=3933\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}