{"id":139,"date":"2009-01-26T17:59:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T21:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-01-26T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T21:59:27","slug":"the-reaper-has-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"The reaper has cometh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tuesday, Jan 20th 2009.&nbsp; A well qualified black president was elected to office (yay).&nbsp; This same day, my favorite radio station, 1130am WDFN completely cut all local talent and went all national (booo).&nbsp; Then I&#8217;m driving down the street the other day and see &#8220;Circuit City &#8211; Going out of business liquidation&#8221; (wtf?).&nbsp; Seriously?&nbsp; Circuit City?&nbsp; Sony, first quarterly loss in 14 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I guess there is a point in everyone&#8217;s life that you can see the world changing.&nbsp; I just wish I knew where it was going.&nbsp; Are we being sucked into that much of a digital life that a very, very good radio station just gets axed?&nbsp; Are brick and mortar stores going the way of the dodo bird?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s seriously like you are standing in the eye of a tornado and watching everything around you being destroyed and you are just waiting for the shift of wind.&nbsp; Circuit City was my electronics store of choice.&nbsp; WDFN was my radio station of choice.&nbsp; I seriously am starting to feel lost.&nbsp; Jamie Samuelson (formerly WDFN mornings) got a job as sports anchor on RIF.&nbsp; I guess in the morning I go there by default?<\/p>\n<p>Sean, Stoney and Wojo&#8230;I hope you get a job locally,&nbsp; I miss you already.&nbsp; Circuit City will still exist in Canada, but forget international shipping. Barack&#8230;you have some work ahead of you, my friend&#8230;good luck and God speed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, Jan 20th 2009.&nbsp; A well qualified black president was elected to office (yay).&nbsp; This same day, my favorite radio station, 1130am WDFN completely cut all local talent and went all national (booo).&nbsp; Then I&#8217;m driving down the street the other day and see &#8220;Circuit City &#8211; Going out of business liquidation&#8221; (wtf?).&nbsp; Seriously?&nbsp; Circuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}