{"id":4534,"date":"2009-04-08T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2009-04-08T07:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:13:21","slug":"king-of-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4534","title":{"rendered":"King of Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Mischke\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/42630267.html\"> Steve Cannon:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think about the day he was diagnosed with cancer. I knew he hadn&#8217;t been feeling well. The last time we had gotten together he hadn&#8217;t had much of an appetite. Still, the news was a blunt-force strike to the heart, made more difficult by the matter-of-fact way he addressed what was so awful about his situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s still things I want to see,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These are such interesting times, aren&#8217;t they? There&#8217;s so much going on. I want to find out how this Obama does, I want to see what changes are going to happen in this country. I want to see the new Twins stadium and the Gopher stadium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was 81, but he might as well have been 21. The world around him was endlessly fascinating to Cannon. He kept up with everything. His mind was sharp, and his biting wit alive and devastating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was hard to pick an actual clip from Mischke&#8217;s <em>Strib <\/em>elegy.\u00a0 Just go and read the whole thing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the kind of thing you just don&#8217;t see in the mass media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Mischke\u00a0 Steve Cannon: I think about the day he was diagnosed with cancer. I knew he hadn&#8217;t been feeling well. The last time we had gotten together he hadn&#8217;t had much of an appetite. Still, the news was a blunt-force strike to the heart, made more difficult by the matter-of-fact way he addressed what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}