{"id":1689,"date":"2008-06-14T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/2008\/06\/14\/breaking-news\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:36:13","slug":"breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/breaking-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;breaking news&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dug Tim Russert and like so many other people, was really shocked to hear the news of his untimely passing. 58? Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, I was tuned into CNN watching the coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/06\/13\/rkelly.closings.ap\/index.html\">R. Kelly<\/a> trial debacle (I mean, what the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">hell?<\/span>) when in came a breaking news story. With local news in LA, &#8220;breaking news&#8221; is usually something like a car chase or some celeb-driven nonsense, but when the folks behind the CNN news desk say that something&#8217;s up, I know it&#8217;s not a game.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost surreal when those who deliver the news actually <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">become <\/span>the news. Aside from feeling sad for Tim&#8217;s family, yet also a bit happy that he got to see his kid graduate from college, I thought it rather interesting that he didn&#8217;t live to see who&#8217;ll make it to the White House. He so thrived on politics&#8230;who knows, perhaps he&#8217;ll be watching the polls from wherever he is.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping he had a safe journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dug Tim Russert and like so many other people, was really shocked to hear the news of his untimely passing. 58? Wow. Oddly enough, I was tuned into CNN watching the coverage of the R. Kelly trial debacle (I mean, what the hell?) when in came a breaking news story. With local news in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/breaking-news\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;breaking news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}