{"id":298,"date":"2013-10-29T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/?p=298"},"modified":"2013-10-29T21:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:26:57","slug":"bob-barker-returning-to-price-is-right-to-celebrate-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/2013\/10\/29\/bob-barker-returning-to-price-is-right-to-celebrate-90th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Barker Returning to &#8216;Price is Right&#8217; to Celebrate 90th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/files\/2013\/10\/barker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299\" alt=\"barker\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/files\/2013\/10\/barker.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/files\/2013\/10\/barker.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/files\/2013\/10\/barker-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/files\/2013\/10\/barker-84x55.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob Barker is returning to his hit TV show, &#8216;The Price is Right&#8217;. Barker will be present on the show to celebrate his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Bob, come on down!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had Bob on just one other time since Drew Carey took over the show,&#8221; says executive producer Mike Richards. &#8220;It was when Bob&#8217;s book,\u00a0<em>Priceless Memories<\/em>, came out and it was a priceless moment for fans. I was looking for the perfect reason to bring Bob back again and this TV legend turning 90 is the perfect reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The episode will air on Dec 12; during a week long tribute to the legend and strong animal rights activist. Barker is famous for reminding us all to spay and neuter our animals at the end of every broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monday through Friday we&#8217;re going to be doing pet adoptions, which is something Bob did on the show for years,&#8221; explains Richards.<\/p>\n<p>Barker will help place a pup for adoption and take part in a special\u00a0Showcase presentation featuring prizes that honor the benefits of reaching 90.<\/p>\n<p>Drew Carey took over hosting \u00a0the\u00a0<i>Price Is Right <\/i>in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Barker is returning to his hit TV show, &#8216;The Price is Right&#8217;. Barker will be present on the show to celebrate his 90th birthday. Bob, come on down! &#8220;We&#8217;ve had Bob on just one other time since Drew Carey took over the show,&#8221; says executive producer Mike Richards. &#8220;It was when Bob&#8217;s book,\u00a0Priceless Memories, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hit-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/thebuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}