{"id":3872,"date":"2008-06-13T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:52:20","slug":"tim-russert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3872","title":{"rendered":"Tim Russert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly gone at 58. What a pity. One of the few television journalists who (mostly)&#0160;didn&#39;t let his personal opinions seep into his reporting and interviewing. And he was a good interviewer, asking hard questions but then giving his guests the chance to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Tom Brokaw, barely able to keep his emotions in check, breaking the bad news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/13\/whoa-tim-russert-dies-of-heart-attack\/\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Hot Air \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Whoa: Tim Russert dies of heart attack; Update: Brokaw video added<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly gone at 58. What a pity. One of the few television journalists who (mostly)&#0160;didn&#39;t let his personal opinions seep into his reporting and interviewing. And he was a good interviewer, asking hard questions but then giving his guests the chance to respond. Here is Tom Brokaw, barely able to keep his emotions in check, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9264,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}