{"id":1137,"date":"2014-01-28T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:28:38","slug":"rip-peter-you-will-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"RIP Peter, you WILL be missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary folk singer, Pete Seeger passed away yesterday<br \/>\nat the tender age of 94.<br \/>\nMr. Seeger was much more than just a singer though, he was a<br \/>\ntrue American patriot who tirelessly gave voice to the lives<br \/>\nof the downtrodden, the blue collar worker, the middle class<br \/>\nand countless others who deserved more than they had.<br \/>\nI have the utmost respect for this man, one of just a very<br \/>\nfew who risked everything&#8230;career, reputation and his<br \/>\npersonal freedom, for refusing to play along with the<br \/>\ninsidious McCarthy era anti-communist hysteria.<br \/>\nHe was blacklisted, beaten down and shunned, but his spirit<br \/>\nwas never broken&#8230;a real one of a kind patriot that has<br \/>\ndone more for this country than ANY politician EVER!<br \/>\nPlease take a moment and check this amazing human being<br \/>\nout on the internet.<br \/>\nHis story should be told to all who care!<br \/>\nThis is a video of him from 50 years ago, from a gig he did<br \/>\nin Australia, singing a ditty that I play on the show!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a5BJ9sbPvZ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I WILL be playing it on the show this week! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary folk singer, Pete Seeger passed away yesterday at the tender age of 94. Mr. Seeger was much more than just a singer though, he was a true American patriot who tirelessly gave voice to the lives of the downtrodden, the blue collar worker, the middle class and countless others who deserved more than they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}