{"id":8487,"date":"2017-04-28T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2017-04-28T07:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:23:00","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=8487","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Leno was born back in 1950!<br \/>\nI know, I know, but there WAS a time when he<br \/>\nwas very funny!<br \/>\nEarly in his career he, like a lot of struggling<br \/>\nstand-up comedians, was hitting all the Open Mic Nights<br \/>\nthat he could find, honing his act to become what he is today.<br \/>\nI met him in the 70&#8217;s and again in the 80&#8217;s when he was<br \/>\na Boston based comic with no national exposure and he was<br \/>\nquite impressive.<br \/>\nFame has a way of taking the edge off, a natural process<br \/>\nthat happens to all that hit the big time.<br \/>\nHappy Birthday, Mr. Leno!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?attachment_id=8488\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8488\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GrandDivorce.jpg\" alt=\"GrandDivorce\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GrandDivorce.jpg 400w, https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GrandDivorce-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Leno was born back in 1950! I know, I know, but there WAS a time when he was very funny! Early in his career he, like a lot of struggling stand-up comedians, was hitting all the Open Mic Nights that he could find, honing his act to become what he is today. I met [&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-8487","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\/8487","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=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}