I\u2019ve think I've made three comments on Rob's column over its long and rich history. One was about Bill Frink. Another was congratulating Rob on an anniversary. I've long tried to ignore the same clowns making the same comments every day, every week, to every column. I would guess that they've got too much time on their hands because of the coronavirus, but their drivel long preceded that tragedy. Perhaps they are lonely. Or just desperately need attention. But it must be painful to be so myopic and predictable and dull. And then to inflict their fatuity on the rest of us, every day, day after day is just sad. Robert, I love your column. I'm sorry that every day the same group of malcontents have to whine about their perceived grievances, and make the rest of us ponder why they come off so frail and tragic that they can't hold themselves back from making the tedious comments for even one day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Rich Warren is stepping down after 37 years as host of \u201cThe Midnight Special,\u201d the venerable weekly showcase for folk music, show tunes and comedy on WFMT 98.7-FM. His final broadcast of the show on the Window to the World Communications classical station will air July 25, but he\u2019ll continue... 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\/25664"}],"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=25664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25674,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664\/revisions\/25674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}