{"id":8794,"date":"2015-09-10T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2015-09-10T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T22:50:13","slug":"wgns-orion-samuelson-to-have-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/09\/10\/wgns-orion-samuelson-to-have-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN\u2019s Orion Samuelson to have heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Orion Samuelson<\/p><\/div>\n

On the eve of his 55th year on the air at WGN AM 720, <\/a>Radio Hall of Famer Orion Samuelson announced he will undergo heart surgery next week.<\/p>\n

Samuelson, 81, legendary agriculture-business reporter for the Tribune Media news\/talk station, said he\u2019ll have surgery Monday at the University of Chicago Medical Center<\/a> to repair or replace a leaky heart valve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not clear yet on whether or not I get a new valve or they just repair the old one, but I\u2019ll get clarification on that,\u201d Samuelson told listeners Thursday on Steve Cochran\u2019s WGN morning show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been an ongoing thing. I think it\u2019s the fact that the valve is 81 years old and it begins to wear down a little bit. . . . It\u2019s been something we\u2019ve been aware of for seven, eight years and now, OK, time to fix it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Samuelson, who grew up on a dairy farm in Ontario, Wisconsin, joined WGN as farm services director in 1960. As host of \u201cThe U.S. Farm Report,\u201d he became the best known voice of agriculture in America.\u00a0He was inducted in the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2003.<\/p>\n

Samuelson said he hopes to be back on WGN in time to celebrate his 55th anniversary September 25. \u201cI think I should be able to,\u201d he added. \u201cAfter all, I am<\/em> Norwegian. So I should recover very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the eve of his 55th year on the air at WGN AM 720, Radio Hall of Famer Orion Samuelson announced he will undergo heart surgery next week. Samuelson, 81, legendary agriculture-business reporter for the Tribune Media news\/talk station, said he\u2019ll have surgery Monday at the University of Chicago Medical Center to repair or replace... 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\/8794"}],"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=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}