{"id":11789,"date":"2016-06-30T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2016-06-30T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:00:01","slug":"back-surgery-to-sideline-wxrts-terri-hemmert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/30\/back-surgery-to-sideline-wxrts-terri-hemmert\/","title":{"rendered":"Back after this: WXRT's Terri Hemmert taking time off after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Terri Hemmert<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago radio treasure Terri Hemmert is expected to be out of commission at least until August while she recuperates from back surgery.<\/p>\n

Friday will be Hemmert\u2019s last day on the air at WXRT FM 93.1<\/a> before she undergoes arthroscopic surgery July 5 to treat a back problem she has had since childhood.<\/p>\n

Hemmert, 68, said she hopes to return to her midday show on the CBS Radio adult album alternative station after four weeks off. In any case, she\u2019s determined to be fully healed in time to emcee her 39th annual Chicago Beatlefest <\/a>convention, which opens August 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate to be off because I like to keep working,\u201d said the Radio Hall of Famer and 42-year veteran of WXRT. \u201cBut I\u2019m looking forward to this because I haven\u2019t been able to walk well in a couple of years. I\u2019ve been in a lot of pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second medical leave this year for Hemmert, who underwent cancer surgery <\/a>in January and was out for five weeks. Her back ailment is not related to the cancer surgery, which was successful, she said. Hemmert also was sidelined for six weeks in 2014 for knee replacement surgery.<\/p>\n

While she\u2019s away, retired WXRT host Frank E. Lee will fill in on Hemmert\u2019s midday show from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Hemmert will still be heard on her signature weekend show, \u201cBreakfast with the Beatles,\u201d which airs from 8 to 10 a.m. Sundays. She said she has taped six installments of the show in advance of her leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago radio treasure Terri Hemmert is expected to be out of commission at least until August while she recuperates from back surgery. Friday will be Hemmert\u2019s last day on the air at WXRT FM 93.1 before she undergoes arthroscopic surgery July 5 to treat a back problem she has had since childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11798,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions\/11798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}