{"id":30986,"date":"2023-04-30T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30986"},"modified":"2023-04-30T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:36:42","slug":"forget-your-mere-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/forget-your-mere-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Your Mere Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/30\/mike-shannon-cardinals-broadcaster-and-champion-dead-at-83\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Shannon, Cardinals broadcaster and World Series champ, dead at 83<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I listened to him broadcasting with Jack Buck when I first moved to St. Louis in the 1980s, and my kids heard him on the radio after we moved to the Springfield area thirty years later.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not going to get that sort of longevity and connection to your youth out of today&#8217;s mercenary broadcasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Shannon, Cardinals broadcaster and World Series champ, dead at 83 I listened to him broadcasting with Jack Buck when I first moved to St. Louis in the 1980s, and my kids heard him on the radio after we moved to the Springfield area thirty years later. You&#8217;re not going to get that sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30987,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986\/revisions\/30987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}