{"id":2057,"date":"2003-03-06T10:58:52","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2003-03-06T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2003-03-06T10:58:52","slug":"wont-you-be-my-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wont-you-be-my-neighbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t you be my neighbor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just saw a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\">PBS<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/people\/bc\/1999\/08\/10\/rogers\/\">Fred Rogers<\/a>. a painfully rational guy like myself doesn&#8217;t show emotion often, but i am unashamed to say that i teared up when i saw him speak again. i will forever underestimate and underappreciate the positive influence this man and <a href=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/rogers\/\">his show<\/a> had on my life. if i can accomplish just a fraction of the good during my design career that he did in his broadcasting career, i will consider it a great success.<\/p>\n<p>For nostalgia&#8217;s sake:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/rogers\/songlist\/song1_ra.html\">A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/rogers\/songlist\/song3_ra.html\">You Are My Friend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just saw a piece on PBS about Fred Rogers. a painfully rational guy like myself doesn&#8217;t show emotion often, but i am unashamed to say that i teared up when i saw him speak again. i will forever underestimate and underappreciate the positive influence this man and his show had on my life. if i&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wont-you-be-my-neighbor\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,85,84],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-fred-rogers","tag-influence","tag-neighbor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-xb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}