{"id":4317,"date":"2020-01-31T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2020-01-31T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:48:32","slug":"birth-of-waqy-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/birth-of-waqy-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Of WAQY Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got this copy when I\nworked for WAQY back in 1969 or so. &nbsp;&nbsp; This is a short skit Tommy and\nDoug put together and as far as I know, played on the air only once &#8211; the\nmoment WAQY signed on the air for the very first time. &nbsp; This obviously\nintroduced WAQY but I guess if you did not know to listen in,&nbsp; this would\nhave played to almost no one,&nbsp; And likely only a very small handful of\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time,&nbsp; they\nhad another staff person named Dave Lloyd.&nbsp; He was not there all that\nlong. &nbsp; You&#8217;ll hear his voice at the beginning, as reporter Buford Burlap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio aligncenter\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Birth-Of-WAQY.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Birth Of WAQY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this copy when I worked for WAQY back in 1969 or so. &nbsp;&nbsp; This is a short skit Tommy and Doug put together and as far as I know, played on the air only once &#8211; the moment WAQY signed on the air for the very first time. &nbsp; This obviously introduced WAQY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","comments-open"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46vzC-17D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}