I'm proud to call Ken Davis my friend. He lost not an ounce of curiosity and enthusiasm in the decades I've know him \u2014 going back even before the Saturday morning WBEZ show \"The Hardware Guy\" (I think that was the title). Hardware referred not to computers or keyboards but to nuts and bolts and tools, the stuff of conversation as he talked with the proprietor of a hardware store on Devon and Clark. I have zero interest in hardware of any sort \u2014 computers or paint rollers \u2014 and sub-zero interest in home do-it-yourself projects, but Ken made it work. I expect to see him and hope to appear alongside him on many political panels in the years to come. I'd be shocked if he left Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 75th anniversary of D-Day will be commemorated by the medium that brought it home to America. Starting this weekend and airing on three consecutive Saturdays in June, \u201cThose Were the Days\u201d will present radio highlights of the events surrounding the Allied landing on June 6, 1944, that marked the beginning of the end of... 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\/21898"}],"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=21898"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21916,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21898\/revisions\/21916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}