{"id":21737,"date":"2019-05-28T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T05:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=21737"},"modified":"2019-05-27T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:31:46","slug":"the-hostage-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=21737","title":{"rendered":"The Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love to play this Kurt Weitzmann gem on the show!<br>A lament that I often state while on air is the fact<br>that they don&#8217;t make good comedy sketches like this<br>anymore, radio is a dying format and skits are made<br>for a visual medium at this point.<br>Radio always had a knack for expanding ones mind,<br>in that a good audio only sketch had a way of making<br>you visualize the plot, using your own imagination to<br>fill in the blanks.<br>There was no need to describe what someone was wearing,<br>or what color someones hair was or the type of vehicle being<br>driven, the person listening provided that information.<br>This is a wacky, funny, irreverent throwback to the old days&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Hostage\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFZU61a8sew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to play this Kurt Weitzmann gem on the show!A lament that I often state while on air is the factthat they don&#8217;t make good comedy sketches like thisanymore, radio is a dying format and skits are madefor a visual medium at this point.Radio always had a knack for expanding ones mind,in that a [&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-21737","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\/21737","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=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21738,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions\/21738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}