{"id":185500,"date":"2014-11-03T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/03\/the-world-just-got-a-bit-less-funny-and-a-lot-less-weird\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:03:00","slug":"the-world-just-got-a-bit-less-funny-and-a-lot-less-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/03\/the-world-just-got-a-bit-less-funny-and-a-lot-less-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Just Got a bit Less Funny, and a Lot Less Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Magliozzi, half of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, <a href=\"http:\/\/hereandnow.wbur.org\/2014\/11\/03\/tom-magliozzi-dies\">died today<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Tom Magliozzi, the older, taller half of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, died today at 77 of complications from Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Tom and his brother Ray Magliozzi first broadcast their public radio call-in show Car Talk in 1977 from the studios of WBUR in Boston.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They offered advice on cars and life, but it was the duo\u2019s sense of humor and Tom\u2019s iconic laugh that made the show so memorable for millions of fans across the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">NPR began distributing Car Talk nationally in 1987. More than 4 million people tuned in each week, making it one of public radio\u2019s most successful shows ever.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was actually was on Car Talk once, in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>I asked them about the edibility of automotive fluids, which, come to think of it, may explain how my writing style developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Magliozzi, half of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, died today Tom Magliozzi, the older, taller half of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, died today at 77 of complications from Alzheimer\u2019s disease.Tom and his brother Ray Magliozzi first broadcast their public radio call-in show Car Talk in 1977 from the studios of WBUR &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1139,1065,1064,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-entertainment","category-media","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185500"}],"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=185500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}