{"id":1953,"date":"2008-01-12T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2008-01-14T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T13:49:06","slug":"all-respect-to-the-godfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"All Respect to the Godfather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sEd notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/016611.php\">it&#8217;s Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s birthday:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Happy Birthday to the man who made conservative talk radio a dominating presence &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\">Rush Limbaugh<\/a>.  We&#8217;re all in your debt, sir, and thank you for all of the hard work you do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 57 years, he&#8217;s had more impact on the world than any radioman I can think of.<\/p>\n<p>And on me, actually; when i was a 25 year old neophyte talk radio host, Limbaugh&#8217;s big surge sorely constricted the number of stations that would actually pay kids like me to work mid-day and evening shows; while a mid-market station might have paid me $24K, LImbaugh&#8217;s satellite show was scot-free to the stations.  In a sense, the industry ate its seed corn; there aren&#8217;t many local political talk hosts out there under age 50, anymore.  But that&#8217;s the fault of a ton of short-sighted General Managers &#8211; and without Limbaugh, the market wouldn&#8217;t exist at all.<\/p>\n<p>So happy birthday, El Rushbo.  Enjoy the weekend.  There is much ass to kick.<\/p>\n<p>(And keep my chair warm for me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sEd notes that it&#8217;s Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s birthday: Happy Birthday to the man who made conservative talk radio a dominating presence &#8212; Rush Limbaugh. We&#8217;re all in your debt, sir, and thank you for all of the hard work you do. In 57 years, he&#8217;s had more impact on the world than any radioman I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}