{"id":34939,"date":"2026-02-25T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34939"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:01:41","slug":"good-news-for-lawn-mowing-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/good-news-for-lawn-mowing-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News For Lawn Mowing Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/25\/st-louis-cardinals-games-move-new-radio-station\/88826893007\/\" target=\"_new\">Cardinals baseball finds new Springfield home on 102.1 The Won<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned, the stubby antenna on the radio-playing headphones still going strong <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/the-greatest-invention-that-ever-defeated-its-own-purpose\/\" target=\"_new\">sixteen years after I bought them<\/a> can pick up, clearly, two stations in all corners of Nogglestead: 92.3 which was country and 105.1 which is now &#8220;old&#8221; country (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/27\/triple-effect-narrator\/\" target=\"_new\">see also<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But!  105.1 was also the home of Cardinals baseball.  Which meant that while I was on the lawnmower or, sometimes, painting record shelves outside or painting the fence, a song, probably a good one, would abruptly end and &#8220;The St. Louis Cardinals are on&#8230;.&#8221; would replace it.  And not the game&#8211;an hour of pregame interviews and things.  Ah, gentle reader, I sometimes scheduled my lawnmowing around the baseball games just so they would not interrupt me.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry.  I know some of you (Friar) are baseball fans.  But although I did grow up having ball games on in the workshop or whatnot, I&#8217;d rather listen to music when I am on the lawnmower.  And now I won&#8217;t have to worry about it.<\/p>\n<p>As long as 105.1 doesn&#8217;t become the greatest hits of the 80s, 90s, and today or, heaven forfend, hot country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinals baseball finds new Springfield home on 102.1 The Won As I&#8217;ve mentioned, the stubby antenna on the radio-playing headphones still going strong sixteen years after I bought them can pick up, clearly, two stations in all corners of Nogglestead: 92.3 which was country and 105.1 which is now &#8220;old&#8221; country (see also). But! 105.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939","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=34939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34940,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939\/revisions\/34940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}