{"id":184300,"date":"2012-06-08T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/08\/damn-21\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T02:04:00","slug":"damn-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/08\/damn-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/08\/hosts-of-car-talk-to-retire-after-35-years-of-automotive-banter\/\">Click and Clack are retiring<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">For years now, after their broadcasts, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the hosts of the public-radio hit \u201cCar Talk,\u201d have been ranking the listener calls they receive on a scale from five to one, with five being the most entertaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">It\u2019s an archival system that will soon be put to use.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">After 35 years of weekly broadcasts and some 12,500 calls, the wisecracking brothers announced on Friday that they are retiring. \u201cAs of October, we\u2019re not going to be recording any more new shows,\u201d Tom, 74, wrote in a CarTalk.com column written with Ray, 63, who added, \u201cWe\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s time to stop and smell the cappuccino.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">NPR, formerly called National Public Radio, will keep the show going by cobbling together the best of the old segments \u2014 the \u201cfives,\u201d so to speak. The producers think that most listeners won\u2019t notice or care that the show is dated. Nonetheless, the announcement on Friday saddened fans of the pair, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, whose freewheeling chat show \u2014 ostensibly about cars \u2014 has been a weekend tradition for decades.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m bumming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click and Clack are retiring: For years now, after their broadcasts, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the hosts of the public-radio hit \u201cCar Talk,\u201d have been ranking the listener calls they receive on a scale from five to one, with five being the most entertaining. It\u2019s an archival system that will soon be put to use. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1139,1065,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-entertainment","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}