{"id":34712,"date":"2018-11-04T06:57:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T10:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34712"},"modified":"2018-11-04T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T12:36:54","slug":"ny-times-op-ed-my-love-affair-with-am-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ny-times-op-ed-my-love-affair-with-am-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Op Ed: “My Love Affair With AM Radio”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post<\/em> contributors, including The Professor,\u00a0Patrick Stenbacka, and Larry W, for sharing a link to this opinion piece in the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0by author Erin Aubry Kaplan:<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Like many people who grew up in the 1970s, I came of age with AM radio. Everybody I knew \u2014 the black kids on my block, the white and Asian kids at my junior high school \u2014 followed the Top 40 and discussed the merits of the newest releases by Elton John and Eddie Kendricks.<\/p>\n

[…]At home, the kitchen-counter radio was always tuned to KABC. It aired restaurant shows, call-in psychologist shows, news shows, all featuring sophisticated discussions of things I had only vague ideas about. My mother listened while she ironed or cooked or sat at the table paying bills. The radio was her company, and because I admired her (but didn\u2019t quite know how to talk to her), it became mine, too.<\/p>\n

To my ears the hosts \u2014 people like Michael Jackson, Dr. Toni Grant, Geoff Witcher \u2014 sounded like my mother: impassioned but thoughtful, often witty, opinionated but not obnoxiously so.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read this full Op Ed piece at the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors, including The Professor,\u00a0Patrick Stenbacka, and Larry W, for sharing a link to this opinion piece in the New York Times\u00a0by author Erin Aubry Kaplan: LOS ANGELES \u2014 Like many people who grew up in the 1970s, I came of age with AM radio. Everybody I knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3],"tags":[625,3888,3891,371],"class_list":["post-34712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-news","tag-am-radio","tag-art-bell","tag-coast-to-coast-am","tag-ny-times"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-91S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31630,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/coast-to-coast-art-bell-w6obb-is-dead-at-72\/","url_meta":{"origin":34712,"position":0},"title":"Coast To Coast: Art Bell (W6OBB) is dead at 72","author":"Thomas","date":"April 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Chicago Tribune) Art Bell, a radio host best known for a paranormal-themed nightly show syndicated on hundreds of stations in the 1990s, died at his home in southern Nevada, authorities said Saturday. 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