{"id":31068,"date":"2026-01-03T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=31068"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:01:25","slug":"growing-up-he-was-so-poor-and-lived-in-a-tent-he-worked-as-a-janitor-after-school-just-to-help-out-today-hes-on-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=31068","title":{"rendered":"Growing up, he was so poor and lived in a tent. He worked as a janitor after school just to help out \u2013 today, he\u2019s on of the\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Carrey isn\u2019t just a comedian\u2014he\u2019s a cultural landmark.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who grew up watching Ace Ventura, The Mask, Dumb &#038; Dumber, or The Truman Show, he wasn\u2019t just funny. He was electric. A living cartoon. And he did it all without profanity, without shock tactics\u2014just pure physical genius and a face made of rubber.<\/p>\n<p>But behind the laughter, Jim has been fighting battles most of us never saw. And now, at 62, as he quietly steps away from Hollywood, friends are worried. He\u2019s rarely seen, reportedly spending much of his time alone, painting and reflecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Carrey isn\u2019t just a comedian\u2014he\u2019s a cultural landmark. For those of us who grew up watching Ace Ventura, The Mask, Dumb &#038; Dumber, or The Truman&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31070,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31068\/revisions\/31070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}