{"id":5651,"date":"2018-02-13T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2021-06-28T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:48:50","slug":"maria-niemela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/maria-niemela\/","title":{"rendered":"MARIA NiEMELA"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_image _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.101&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/maria1.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;on&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.101&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221;]\n<p>Like many of Johnny&#8217;s millions of fans, Maria began to collect all his albums and to attend his concerts\/shows in Los Angeles &#038; Las Vegas in 1957. She never dreamed that she would ever meet Johnny, let alone become a part of his organization.<\/p>\n<p>Maria met Ray Haughn, Johnny&#8217;s manager, in 1971, who felt she could help Rojon<\/p>\n<p>Productions with various fan-related projects: writing the Johnny Mathis International Fan Club Newsletter and reading\/answering Johnny&#8217;s fan mail. Maria is keeper of all photos, video and memorabilia on Johnny Mathis. &#8220;She knows more about me than I do,&#8221; says Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>Maria was asked to produce the Johnny Mathis Souvenir Books, that are still being sold at concerts presently.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Like many of Johnny&#8217;s millions of fans, Maria began to collect all his albums and to attend his concerts\/shows in Los Angeles &#038; Las Vegas in 1957. She never dreamed that she would ever meet Johnny, let alone become a part of his organization. Maria met Ray Haughn, Johnny&#8217;s manager, in 1971, who felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}