{"id":2809,"date":"2008-07-03T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:49:39","slug":"cops-bust-madame-mariepolice-deny-competitive-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"Cops Bust Madame Marie:  Police Deny Competitive Retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Castello &#8211; &#8220;Madame Marie&#8221; from the Asbury Park New Jersey boardwalk &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/music\/2008\/07\/01\/2008-07-01_madam_marie_dies__asbury_park_fortune_te.html\">died last Friday:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The psychic reader and adviser was in her mid-90s.<\/p>\n<p>Castello told fortunes on the Asbury Park Boardwalk since the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>She became famous worldwide in 1973 when Bruce Springsteen paid homage to her in the song, &#8220;4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Didja hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie<br \/>\nfor telling fortunes better than they do?<br \/>\nFor me this boardwalk life&#8217;s through, babe.<br \/>\nYou oughtta quit this scene too&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The song &#8211; and her appearances in stories Springsteen would tell onstage (most notably during his extended band introduction during &#8220;Tenth Avenue Freezeout&#8221; over the decades) made her a bit of a celeb; she&#8217;s popped up in all sorts of other pop culture references (including an appearance on Chef Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s TV show).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Castello &#8211; &#8220;Madame Marie&#8221; from the Asbury Park New Jersey boardwalk &#8211; died last Friday: The psychic reader and adviser was in her mid-90s. Castello told fortunes on the Asbury Park Boardwalk since the 1930s. She became famous worldwide in 1973 when Bruce Springsteen paid homage to her in the song, &#8220;4th of July, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","tag-springsteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24254,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/24254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}