{"id":985,"date":"2004-05-29T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:28:06","slug":"985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/29\/985\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Irony to the Wool Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations once again to the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>.  In today&#8217;s print edition, the story entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/sports\/stories.nsf\/Sports\/Other+Sports\/4C7B3C43B43C547186256EA300158FCC?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Hosts+of+sports-talk+shows+should+follow+a+few+basics\" target=\"new\">Hosts of sports-talk shows should follow a few basics<\/a> contains rule number one for radio sports talk show hosts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Be as informed as your listeners:<\/b> Hosts should know at least as much about current events as those who are on the other end of the radio. And it doesn&#8217;t take that much work. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accompanying this piece is a photo of Tony Twist, who has recently been ousted from a hosting position on one of the radio stations discussed in the article.  The caption for the photo?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Blues <b>defenseman<\/b> Tony Twist was a casualty of changes at radio station KSLG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here on the Internet, we have a saying: Double-check your spelling when you criticize someone&#8217;s grammar.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><i>Note to the unhockey-savvy, including the sports photo caption writers for the <\/i>Post-Dispatch<i>:Tony Twist was a winger, a <b>forward<\/b>, not a defenseman.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations once again to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In today&#8217;s print edition, the story entitled Hosts of sports-talk shows should follow a few basics contains rule number one for radio sports talk show hosts: Be as informed as your listeners: Hosts should know at least as much about current events as those who are on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23271,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/23271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}