{"id":1152,"date":"2014-02-01T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T03:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2014-02-01T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T03:48:43","slug":"what-it-was-was-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"What it was was Football!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1953 a relative unknown by the name of Andy Griffith<br \/>\ncreated a funny little story called What it Was Was Football.<br \/>\nThis comedy sketch sold 800,000 copies and helped launch<br \/>\nthe career of a man who would soon be known as Sheriff<br \/>\nAndy Taylor, chief constable of the fictional town of<br \/>\nMayberry, North Carolina.<br \/>\nThis is a recording of that piece with illustrations from<br \/>\nGeorge Woodbridge, a Mad Magazine artist&#8230;this actually<br \/>\nwas the art used in the issue of Mad from 1958 that put<br \/>\nthe story into print.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNxLxTZHKM8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A neat little piece of comedy history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1953 a relative unknown by the name of Andy Griffith created a funny little story called What it Was Was Football. This comedy sketch sold 800,000 copies and helped launch the career of a man who would soon be known as Sheriff Andy Taylor, chief constable of the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina. [&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-1152","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\/1152","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=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}