{"id":197,"date":"2003-02-27T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T13:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2003-02-27T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T13:02:39","slug":"mr-rogers-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/mr-rogers-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Rogers dead at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A9496-2003Feb27.html\">Mr. Rogers dead at 74<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nRead his biography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misterrogers.org\/mister_rogers_neighborhood\/biography.asp\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI have a lot of respect for Mr Rogers.  Sure, the show is slow, but it&#8217;s meant for <b>very little<\/b> children.  Mr Rogers thought about very little children &#8212; what their needs were, what they were thinking about &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misterrogers.org\/mister_rogers_neighborhood\/research_main.asp\">and took them seriously<\/a>.<br \/>\nMy favorite Mr. Rogers story:  ever notice that, when he feeds the fish, he always says &#8220;feed the fish!&#8221; or something like that?  He does that because of a letter he received from a father that roughly ran, Dear Mr. Rogers, please help me.  My little daughter loves your show.  She is blind, so if you don&#8217;t <b>say <\/b>that you&#8217;re feeding the fish, she doesn&#8217;t know you&#8217;re doing it, and she is afraid they&#8217;ll starve.<br \/>\nI also get a chuckle when I see the show because the neighborhood (the &#8220;real&#8221; one, not King Friday&#8217;s domain) is based on the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Shadyside, near where my husband went to school.  (That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so hilly.)<br \/>\nHere are the lyrics to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misterrogers.org\/mister_rogers_neighborhood\/its_you_i_like.asp\">one of my favorite Mr Rogers songs<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhen Hambet sees the show ending, he always waves and says &#8220;Bye bye Wogers!  Bye bye!&#8221;  Bye bye, Mr. Rogers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Rogers dead at 74 Read his biography here. I have a lot of respect for Mr Rogers. Sure, the show is slow, but it&#8217;s meant for very little children. Mr Rogers thought about very little children &#8212; what their needs were, what they were thinking about &#8212; and took them seriously. My favorite Mr.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/mr-rogers-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. Rogers dead at 74<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}