{"id":11683,"date":"2014-01-18T06:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2014-01-18T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:05:25","slug":"random-notes-january-18-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11683","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: January 18, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obit watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/kut.org\/post\/former-kut-dj-larry-monroe-has-passed-away-update\">Larry Monroe, former KUT-FM DJ<\/a>. Yes, it was radio &#8211; worse yet, public radio. But I liked pretty much everything Monroe did for the station. I drove home from South Austin many Thursday nights listening to the &#8220;Phil Music&#8221; show, back when KUT broadcast city council meetings. (This was a long time ago, in another country. It was called &#8220;Phil Music&#8221; because it began with Monroe playing music while the council members were in private session and\/or there were gaps in the broadcast; in other words, &#8220;fill music&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care much for golf. But, by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2014\/01\/17\/evening-report-for-january-17-2014\/\">Jimbo<\/a>, one of the more interesting things I&#8217;ve read so far this year: <strong>Grantland<\/strong> writer discovers a woman who&#8217;s invented a revolutionary putter, and starts working on a story about her. <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/a-mysterious-physicist-golf-club-dr-v\/\">Then things get weird<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: adding link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/135735\/Dr-Vs-Magical-Putter\">MetaFilter discussion of the story<\/a> above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obit watch: Larry Monroe, former KUT-FM DJ. Yes, it was radio &#8211; worse yet, public radio. But I liked pretty much everything Monroe did for the station. I drove home from South Austin many Thursday nights listening to the &#8220;Phil Music&#8221; show, back when KUT broadcast city council meetings. (This was a long time ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,70,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-obits","category-radio","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11686,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}