{"id":63,"date":"2011-04-06T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/?p=63"},"modified":"2011-04-09T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T15:15:36","slug":"youre-listening-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/youre-listening-to\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You&#8217;re listening to?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/old_radio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/old_radio.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"old_radio\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77\" \/><\/a>&#8220;You&#8217;re listening to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In days past, WELY was a radio station where many had the opportunity to offer their talents, music and personal time through volunteering. Dozens of on-air personalities past, no longer given the opportunity, left us a piece of themselves for all ages and interests to enjoy, even participate, and the range of listeners were offered their choice of what appealed to them.<\/p>\n<p>Today, if we choose, we listen to several personalities whose talents are good but limited because of commercial parameters and a so called program director. Why can&#8217;t we have a community supported radio station like WTIP in Grand Marais (wtip.org) or WOJB in LaCourderai Wisconsin, (wojb.org). Tune them in, here the difference and visit their websites. They produce exceptional programing, educational for many interests, and a vast variety of music and information, using NPR and MPR, eliminating the canned commercial crap and redundant syndicated voice that belongs on KQ and WEVE, not our home town station. This is not, back in 1995, what Charles Kuralt envisioned.<br \/>\nSo, why can&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>Mark Haarman<br \/>\nApril 4, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re listening to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In days past, WELY was a radio station where many had the opportunity to offer their talents, music and personal time through volunteering. Dozens of on-air personalities past, no longer given the opportunity, left us a piece of themselves for all ages and interests to enjoy, even participate, and the range of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35,18],"tags":[36,148,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}