{"id":12867,"date":"2014-11-03T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2014-11-03T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:40:47","slug":"obit-watch-november-3-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12867","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: November 3, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Magliozzi, of &#8220;Car Talk&#8221; fame. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/11\/03\/357428287\/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-nn-tom-magliozzi-car-talk-dies-20141103-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Preliminary <strong>LAT<\/strong> obit<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-tom-magliozzi-host-car-talk-211347\" target=\"_blank\">A\/V Club<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartalk.com\/blogs\/staff-blog\/tom-magliozzi-1937-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Car Talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, I was a huge fan of &#8220;Car Talk&#8221;. My Monday nights were not complete without listening to the latest episode, and I tended to get cranky if that schedule was interrupted. (Kids, ask your parents about the time before podcasts.) I even &#8211; hold on to your hats, folks &#8211; donated money to our local NPR station at one point so I could show my support of &#8220;Car Talk&#8221;. (Oh, yeah. Like you never did anything stupid when you were young.)<\/p>\n<p>Then our local station changed the schedule around so &#8220;Car Talk&#8221; was on at an inconvenient time, and I kind of dropped away from it. Then Tom and Ray started taking truly idiotic political positions (for example, advocating a federally enforced limit on horsepower to weight ratios) and I stopped being a &#8220;Car Talk&#8221; fan. As a matter of fact, I began to find the show grating. Not quite &#8220;I&#8217;d rather listen to Prairie Home Companion&#8221; grating, but grating enough. And frankly, I don&#8217;t understand why it is still on the air, since it has been nothing but re-runs since 2012. (Actually, I think I do understand why: I guess it brings in the bucks at pledge time.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, 77 is too damn young. Alzheimer\u2019s sucks. I do kind of want to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2014\/11\/03\/car-talk-co-host-tom-magliozzi-dies-at-77\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tribute show<\/a>. And he had a great beard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Magliozzi, of &#8220;Car Talk&#8221; fame. NPR. Preliminary LAT obit. A\/V Club. Car Talk. A long time ago, I was a huge fan of &#8220;Car Talk&#8221;. My Monday nights were not complete without listening to the latest episode, and I tended to get cranky if that schedule was interrupted. (Kids, ask your parents about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14,16,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-clippings","category-obits","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867","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=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12868,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions\/12868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}