{"id":191563,"date":"2009-07-25T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/25\/the-death-of-the-rock-of-boston\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T03:02:00","slug":"the-death-of-the-rock-of-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/25\/the-death-of-the-rock-of-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of the Rock of Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Radio is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/ticker\/2009\/07\/final_chord_for.html\">shuttering WBCN to make space on the dial for yet <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">another<\/span> sports radio station in Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a year in Boston, and woke up to Charles Laquidara&#8217;s &#8220;Big Mattress&#8221;, and was down there nearly every week in my college days.<\/p>\n<p>I know that when I talked with my brother, who still lives in the area, and some of my classmates from UMass, that it was a shadow of what it once was (thanks a lot, Oedipus), but it&#8217;s sad to see a part of my youth go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Radio is shuttering WBCN to make space on the dial for yet another sports radio station in Boston. I spent a year in Boston, and woke up to Charles Laquidara&#8217;s &#8220;Big Mattress&#8221;, and was down there nearly every week in my college days. I know that when I talked with my brother, who still &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1067,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-communications","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191563"}],"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=191563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}