{"id":4485,"date":"2014-07-26T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/excelsior-jean-shepherds-birthday\/"},"modified":"2014-07-26T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T01:54:00","slug":"excelsior-jean-shepherds-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/excelsior-jean-shepherds-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCELSIOR! Jean Shepherd’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Crane (and, I think, Garrison Keillor) alerted us to this important birthday:<\/p>\n

It’s the<\/span> <\/span>birthday<\/span> of humorist Jean Shepherd<\/span><\/a> (books by this author<\/span><\/a>), born in Chicago, Illinois (1921). He’s remembered for the autobiographical stories he told on the radio about a boy named Ralph Parker growing up in Hohman, Indiana. One of his stories was made into the movie A Christmas Story <\/i>(1983), which he narrated. It’s about a boy who wants a BB gun for Christmas, even though every adult in his life says that he’ll shoot his eye out. <\/u><\/u><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
The stories Shepherd told on-air were always improvised, but he later wrote them down and published them in collections like In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash <\/i>(1967) and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters <\/i>(1972). <\/u><\/u><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Jean Shepherd said: “Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.”<\/u><\/u><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Crane (and, I think, Garrison Keillor) alerted us to this important birthday: It’s the birthday of humorist Jean Shepherd (books by this author), born in Chicago, Illinois (1921). He’s remembered for the autobiographical stories he told on the radio about a boy named Ralph Parker growing up in Hohman, Indiana. One of his stories … Continue reading “EXCELSIOR! Jean Shepherd’s Birthday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}