{"id":8993,"date":"2013-11-24T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T20:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2013-11-24T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T20:02:22","slug":"who-was-walter-winchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8993","title":{"rendered":"Who was Walter Winchell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I added <a href=\"javascript:void(x=window.open('\/show-poll.php?pollnum=2290','poll','width=200,height=620,status=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,screenX=50,screenY=50,left=50,top=50'));x.focus();\">this poll<\/a> after hearing a radio show (I&#8217;m pretty sure it was John Batchelor) on how one of the &#8220;Tokyo Rose&#8221; radio broadcasters was actually working to help the US military, but was pursued for war crimes, mainly led by the Broadway and Hollywood gossip columnist and WABC personality Walter Winchell (who has no connection with Winchell Donuts).<\/p>\n<p>After reading up on this to see if this &#8220;Tokyo Rose was a victim&#8221; narrative might be true &#8211; Walter Winchell was my grandparent&#8217;s generation and only a fuzzy memory of mine &#8211; I discovered the little factoid that Larry King took over for Winchell at the Miami Herald  in 1965 when Winchell stopped being carried by newspapers.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/27\/us\/larry-king-fast-facts\/<\/p>\n<p>Based on the poll results, I&#8217;m not the only one that didn&#8217;t know that.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard it yet, Larry King has started doing 1 minute commentaries for Cumulus Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I added this poll after hearing a radio show (I&#8217;m pretty sure it was John Batchelor) on how one of the &#8220;Tokyo Rose&#8221; radio broadcasters was actually working to help the US military, but was pursued for war crimes, mainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8993\">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":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993","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=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}