{"id":8214,"date":"2014-12-19T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2023-03-26T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:19:41","slug":"friday-funnies-malaise-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/friday-funnies-malaise-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Funnies; malaise edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember when there was an actual competition between radio stations for the coveted #1 bragging rights?\u00a0 That was way back in the day when talented air persons were sought and compensated for their performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, when thinking about certain owners and their money men, a certain Fat Boy Slim album cover comes to mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013\" class=\"wp-image-8245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013-50x37.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cd-fat-boy-slim-youve-come-as-long-way-baby-chemical-brother_MLB-F-3935679143_032013.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahhh, the 90&#8217;s, I never thought I&#8217;d miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when there was an actual competition between radio stations for the coveted #1 bragging rights?\u00a0 That was way back in the day when talented air persons were sought and compensated for their performances. These days, when thinking about certain owners and their money men, a certain Fat Boy Slim album cover comes to mind: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/friday-funnies-malaise-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Funnies; malaise edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11225,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}