{"id":2406,"date":"2003-02-27T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T08:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2003-02-27T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T08:22:49","slug":"wont_you_by_my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t You By My Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/02\/27\/rogers.obit\/index.html\">&#8216;Mister Rogers&#8217; dies at age 74<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) &#8212; Television&#8217;s &#8220;Mister Rogers,&#8221; the cultural icon and kindly neighbor to generations of American children, died Thursday at the age of 74.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Growing up I was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/\">PBS<\/a> kid.  It was one of the few things my mom would let me watch regularly.  I remember watching Sesame Street, <a href=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/rogers\/\">Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood<\/a>, and The Electric Company regularly.  I still remember so many bits about the show now. There was the trolley that went to the Make-Believe land, and Mr &#8220;Speedy&#8221; McFeely (the mailman).  I&#8217;m not even sure if PBS even still airs old reruns of the show, but I hope they do (it appears they do). I actually think I even have the record from the show on vinyl.  Goodbye Mr. Rodgers, you&#8217;ll be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/02\/27\/obituaries\/27WEB-ROGE.html\">New York Times<\/a> obit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Mister Rogers&#8217; dies at age 74 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) &#8212; Television&#8217;s &#8220;Mister Rogers,&#8221; the cultural icon and kindly neighbor to generations of American children, died Thursday at the age of 74. Growing up I was a PBS kid. It was one of the few things my mom would let me watch regularly. I remember watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}