{"id":23730,"date":"2017-01-02T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23730"},"modified":"2017-01-02T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T23:03:07","slug":"california-chauffeur-gets-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-chauffeur-gets-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"California Chauffeur Gets Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/estateje.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In one of the funniest episodes of &#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm&#8221;\u00a0Larry David\u00a0becomes\u00a0chauffeur for tennis star John McEnroe. Borrowing material from life experiences for episodes of the HBO program and &#8220;Seinfield&#8221;,\u00a0David actually worked as a limousine driver and store clerk during his years as a\u00a0stand-up comedian. Here&#8217;s another funny limousine driver story from author C. MacDonald:<\/p>\n<p>While earning money for college, my father was a private chauffeur for a well-to-do woman in Pasadena. She insisted that he always wear a black hat and the lady always sat in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>Later in life I\u00a0was mistaken for a chauffer while driving\u00a0a carload of relatives around South Lake Tahoe. Perhaps\u00a0my brown hat and coat, which just happened to match the car&#8217;s color, had something to do with it. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/chauffeur.html\">Read this fun story!<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the funniest episodes of &#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm&#8221;\u00a0Larry David\u00a0becomes\u00a0chauffeur for tennis star John McEnroe. Borrowing material from life experiences for episodes of the HBO program and &#8220;Seinfield&#8221;,\u00a0David actually worked as a limousine driver and store clerk during his years as a\u00a0stand-up comedian. Here&#8217;s another funny limousine driver story from author C. MacDonald: While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}