{"id":15405,"date":"2016-06-06T04:50:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15405"},"modified":"2016-06-06T04:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:50:14","slug":"tough-times-in-lake-wobegone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15405","title":{"rendered":"Tough Times in Lake Wobegone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Public Media has been begging Garrison Keillor for years not to retire from the weekend Prairie Companion show &#8211; a novelty in that it is broadcast live, usually from the theater in Saint Paul Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>He was going to retire in a few months, but he just revealed he had a brain seizure during the show two weeks ago.  There is some brain damage, but he plans to keep on doing the show until the agreed on date.<\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, I created a poll asking people if they know the origin of the Prairie Home Companion program name.   Outhouse was a popular plausible guess.  My real guess was it was a reference to the Bible.   Here is a hint &#8211; if you were looking for legendary guitarist Les Paul, he can be found there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairiehome.publicradio.org\/features\/hodgepodge\/25anniversary\/list\/c_cemetary.html\">Real Origin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Public Media has been begging Garrison Keillor for years not to retire from the weekend Prairie Companion show &#8211; a novelty in that it is broadcast live, usually from the theater in Saint Paul Minnesota. He was going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}