{"id":68238,"date":"2016-10-02T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68238"},"modified":"2016-10-02T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T10:42:18","slug":"somewhere-the-wienermobile-and-tso-are-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68238","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, The Wienermobile &#8211; and TSO &#8211; are Crying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard D. Trentlage died on 21 September 2016.\u00a0 He died of congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trentlage was 87.\u00a0 He&#8217;d lived a full life.<\/p>\n<p>You may not recognize his name.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ll guarantee you know his most famous work:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aNddW2xmZp8\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, he&#8217;s the guy who wrote the &#8220;Oscar Meyer Wiener&#8221; jingle.<\/p>\n<p>Trentlage wrote other advertising jingles, too &#8211; some of which were used in national ad campaigns. But one he wrote for Oscar Meyer is by far his most famous.<\/p>\n<p>Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/leisure\/2016\/09\/30\/man-behind-beloved-oscar-mayer-wiener-song-dies-at-87\/\"><em>has a short obit<\/em><\/a> on the man; the NYT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/30\/us\/richard-d-trentlage-oscar-mayer-wiener-song-author-dies.html\"><em>has a longer one<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_D._Trentlage\"><em>Wikipedia Article on the man<\/em><\/a> is also a good read. Any of them IMO are worth the the few minutes it will take to read.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Mr. Trentlage. And thanks for giving us a piece of Americana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><u>Author&#8217;s Note<\/u>: in case anyone is wondering about the TSO reference, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59001\">check out this link<\/a>.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard D. Trentlage died on 21 September 2016.\u00a0 He died of congestive heart failure. Mr. Trentlage &hellip; <a title=\"Somewhere, The Wienermobile &#8211; and TSO &#8211; are Crying\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68238\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somewhere, The Wienermobile &#8211; and TSO &#8211; are Crying<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-remember","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68238","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}