{"id":29292,"date":"2020-08-02T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T05:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=29292"},"modified":"2020-08-01T22:13:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T03:13:13","slug":"a-dying-cub-fans-last-request-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=29292","title":{"rendered":"A Dying Cub Fan&#8217;s Last Request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not a baseball fan myself, but I chose this piece<br>by the late, great Steve Goodman because it&#8217;s a <br>great song with style points galore.<br>Steve was a very talented song writer and performer<br>and he wrote a few really good tunes that other<br>folks made famous.<br>I am quite sure that if Mr. Goodman had not been<br>stricken with Leukemia he would have penned<br>even more hits, he was that good.<br>We are at the mid point in Summer where I get a bit<br>nostalgic and go with the sentimental flow.<br>He wrote this piece when the Cubs were in the cellar.<br>They have since won a World&#8217;s Series.<br>Fans being fans, the lament is real.<br>Rumor has it Steve&#8217;s remains were scattered over<br>Wrigley field after he passed away in 1984&#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=\"A Dying Cub Fan&#039;s Last Request (Live)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZX0WZj0lmcA?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a baseball fan myself, but I chose this pieceby the late, great Steve Goodman because it&#8217;s a great song with style points galore.Steve was a very talented song writer and performerand he wrote a few really good tunes that otherfolks made famous.I am quite sure that if Mr. Goodman had not beenstricken with [&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-29292","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\/29292","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=29292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29293,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions\/29293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}