{"id":17774,"date":"2011-03-03T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17774"},"modified":"2011-03-02T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:29:37","slug":"it-was-twenty-years-ago-today-part-cxxv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17774","title":{"rendered":"It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, Part CXXV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a Sunday afternoon, at my weekend gig at KDWB.\u00a0 It was 5PM, and I was back at the pop machine.\u00a0 Joe Hansen was grabbing a coke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, ah, the boss fired one of our board ops&#8221;, he said, in his typical indoor voice, which was loud enough to shush R. Lee Ermey.<\/p>\n<p>It clicked.\u00a0 &#8220;S0 &#8211; they&#8217;re hiring someone to replace him?&#8221;, I asked.<\/p>\n<p>They were.\u00a0 Joe told me to contact Leighton Peck, the boss at K63 &#8211; KDWB-AM, once a storied Top40 AM station from the glory days of rock and roll radio &#8211; and let him know I was interested.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow.\u00a0 For sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a Sunday afternoon, at my weekend gig at KDWB.\u00a0 It was 5PM, and I was back at the pop machine.\u00a0 Joe Hansen was grabbing a coke. &#8220;So, ah, the boss fired one of our board ops&#8221;, he said, in his typical indoor voice, which was loud enough to shush R. Lee Ermey. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twenty-years-ago-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17774"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17837,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions\/17837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}