{"id":17966,"date":"2026-05-21T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:38:25","slug":"105-year-old-mildred-holt-has-johnny-in-hysterics-the-carson-moment-that-takes-us-back-to-the-heart-of-classic-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17966","title":{"rendered":"\u201c105-Year-Old Mildred Holt Has Johnny in Hysterics\u201d \u2014 The Carson Moment That Takes Us Back to the Heart of Classic TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t scripted. It wasn\u2019t slick. It was pure television magic. When The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson welcomed Mildred Holt, a 105-year-old guest with a sharper wit than half of Hollywood, America didn\u2019t just laugh \u2014 it fell in love all over again with the golden age of TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"105-Year-Old Mildred Holt Busts Johnny Up | Carson Tonight Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyY9AL7LEJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t scripted. It wasn\u2019t slick. It was pure television magic. When The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson welcomed Mildred Holt, a 105-year-old guest with a sharper wit than half of Hollywood, America didn\u2019t just laugh \u2014 it fell in love all over again with the golden age of TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17968,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/17968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}