{"id":24802,"date":"2022-06-14T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24802"},"modified":"2022-06-14T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:23:08","slug":"obit-watch-june-14-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24802","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 14, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/13\/1104529533\/baxter-black-obituary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baxter Black<\/a>, former &#8220;large-animal veterinarian&#8221; and NPR guy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/13\/1104529533\/baxter-black-obituary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black was keenly aware that he didn&#8217;t sound like anyone else on public radio, with former Morning Edition host Bob Edwards recalling that &#8220;he knew our audience and he knew how he fit in.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/13\/1104529533\/baxter-black-obituary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;He would gear some of his commentary in that way, like the people who were against &#8230;. fur coats, use of fur, and Bax thought you should recycle roadkill and use the fur as clothing for dolls,&#8221; Edwards said. &#8220;So Barbie would have a fur coat from a dead possum or something. That was one of his tweaks at public radio right there.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baxter Black, former &#8220;large-animal veterinarian&#8221; and NPR guy. Black was keenly aware that he didn&#8217;t sound like anyone else on public radio, with former Morning Edition host Bob Edwards recalling that &#8220;he knew our audience and he knew how he fit in.&#8221; &#8220;He would gear some of his commentary in that way, like the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802","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=24802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24805,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802\/revisions\/24805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}