As a CLTV fill-in anchor, on many a weekend I wander into the WGN weather office whenever I have a question about a meteorological term or fact. No matter its obscurity, Jim [Ramsey] happily and eagerly launches into a detailed and informed explanation of the science of weather, drawing on his accumulated forecasting experience. His weather chops are formidable - something that comes only with years of dedicated service to a craft. He's never been flashy but he has always been smart and accurate - exactly what you want from a forecaster. I will miss working with him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: On Tuesday weatherman Jim Ramsey became the latest Chicago media personality to announce his retirement in 2017. Among those who\u2019ve already bowed out \u2014 or said they plan to do so in 2018 \u2014 are Mike Adamle, Steve Baskerville, Terry Boers, Bruce DuMont, Ken \u201cHawk\u201d Harrelson, Mike Imrem, Tom Joyner,... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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\/16242"}],"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=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16258,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions\/16258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}