{"id":4199,"date":"2012-01-27T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:55:25","slug":"america-loves-its-super-sportstm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"America Loves Its Super Sports(tm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When meeting someone new in Connecticut in a social context, it is not unusual to be hit immediately with the question &#8220;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Yankees or Red Sox<\/strong><\/span>?&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Give the wrong answer and your conversation is over.\u00a0 Say you don&#8217;t follow baseball at all\u00a0and <em><strong>the conversation is really over<\/strong><\/em> and they move to the other side of the room.<\/p>\n<p>In about a week, the football team from New England will meet the football team from New York in the really important football game whose name can never be mentioned unless you pay money(tm)\u00a0\u00a0 They will be meeting in the middle of winter in Indianapolis, Indiana in a stadium with a retractable roof.<\/p>\n<p>Probably very much related, <strong>Clear Channel&#8217;s WPKX-FM<\/strong> in Springfield, Massachusetts suddenly has changed formats from Country Music to <strong>ESPN<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The existing country music is moving to a station in Amherst, replacing a rock station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When meeting someone new in Connecticut in a social context, it is not unusual to be hit immediately with the question &#8220;Yankees or Red Sox?&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Give the wrong answer and your conversation is over.\u00a0 Say you don&#8217;t follow baseball at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4199\">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-4199","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\/4199","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=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}