{"id":1861,"date":"2008-06-13T16:14:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2008-06-13T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T21:02:33","slug":"tim-russert-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"Tim Russert passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ob-bq122_russer_20080613154056.jpg\" title=\"ob-bq122_russer_20080613154056.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ob-bq122_russer_20080613154056.jpg\" alt=\"ob-bq122_russer_20080613154056.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m shocked. My homeboy is gone. (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121338573342572737.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ link<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim Russert, host of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and its Washington bureau chief, collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Russert signed off after an interview with John McCain during a taping of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; in January.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the most widely watched program of its type in the nation. His signature trait there was an unrelenting style of questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Washingtonian magazine once dubbed Mr. Russert the best journalist in town, and described &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; as &#8220;the most interesting and important hour on television.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My condolences to his family.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, he touched <a href=\"http:\/\/3-116thsniper.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/rip-tim-russert.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thus Spake Ortner<\/a>&#8216;s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked. My homeboy is gone. (WSJ link); Tim Russert, host of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; &hellip; <a title=\"Tim Russert passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1861\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tim Russert passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}