{"id":38,"date":"2000-10-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laaker.com\/cms\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-11-13T22:09:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T06:09:34","slug":"an-open-invitation-to-john-schneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/press-releases\/2000\/an-open-invitation-to-john-schneider","title":{"rendered":"An Open Invitation to John Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"prbodycopy\">(New York) &#8211; Excited by New York Republican Senate candidate Rick Lazio&#8217;s recent televised &#8220;invitation&#8221; to fellow candidate Hillary Clinton, Micah Laaker today announced an open invitation to John Schneider to follow in the footsteps of his former co-worker, Tom Wopat, and sign a personalized publicity photo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">At the request of <i>Laaker.com<\/i> correspondent J. Sly, Mr. Wopat, &#8220;Luke Duke&#8221; of &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard&#8221; fame, had signed a photo (<i>Ed<\/i>. &#8211; Please see photo at left.) of himself and Schneider, &#8220;Bo Duke&#8221; of the same fame, with the following personalized message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<tt>Micah,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAll the Best!<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Wopat<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStill Flippin!<\/tt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Ever respectful of his former &#8220;brother,&#8221; Wopat only signed his area of the photo, leaving plenty of room for Schneider to follow suit in the appropriate area. Mr. Laaker, while extending this metaphorical favor-asking branch, was noticeably hopeful of the possibility of Schneider signing the photograph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Having met Schneider at an L.A. celebrity gala in February (<em>Ed<\/em>. &#8211; Please see <a href=\"pr_2000_03_01.php\">03\/01\/00<\/a> release.), Mr. Laaker invited Schneider to step forward and sign the remainder of the photo with a similar message. &#8220;Mr. Schneider has a personal interest in seeing this photographic dyptich signed,&#8221; said Mr. Laaker today. &#8220;This photograph represents the first in a series of celebrity &#8216;Still Flippin!&#8217; photographs, and Mr. Schneider should be both proud and honored to join Mr. Wopat in this landmark endeavor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Mr. Laaker, as yet, has made no attempt to reach Schneider or Wopat for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mlaaker\/304027220\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/99\/304027220_c547c9c432_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"196\" alt=\"Still Flippin', courtesy of Tom Wopat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"prcaption\">The signed photo of the Duke brothers at the &#8220;Great Possum Cook Off&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York) &#8211; Excited by New York Republican Senate candidate Rick Lazio&#8217;s recent televised &#8220;invitation&#8221; to fellow candidate Hillary Clinton, Micah Laaker today announced an open invitation to John Schneider to follow in the footsteps of his former co-worker, Tom Wopat, and sign a personalized publicity photo. At the request of Laaker.com correspondent J. Sly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,77],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-celebrities","tag-dukes-of-hazzard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}