{"id":3135,"date":"2007-11-15T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T14:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2007-11-15T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T15:38:15","slug":"bill-mercer-on-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bill-mercer-on-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Mercer on Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=malesurvival&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1589792246&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/iframe><strong>Bill Mercer<\/strong>, former play-by-play announcer for <strong>World Class Championship Wrestling<\/strong>, the <strong>Cowboys<\/strong>, <strong>Rangers<\/strong> and others was on <strong>KERA&#8217;s Think<\/strong> yesterday (as a replay show).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyone in the broadcasting business around here knows the name Bill Mercer. And anyone who considers themselves a sports fan has probably heard his voice. In September we spent an hour with Mercer, whose 50+ year career as a broadcaster and broadcasting instructor continues today. His recent memoir is &#8220;Play-By- Play: Tales from a Sports Broadcasting Insider&#8221; (Taylor Trade, 2007).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to add that book to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wishlist\/1SGLZB60DGU8\">Amazon Wishlist<\/a> for sure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/podcastdownload.npr.org\/anon.npr-podcasts\/podcast\/77\/510036\/16297940\/KERA_16297940.mp3\">Listen online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Mercer, former play-by-play announcer for World Class Championship Wrestling, the Cowboys, Rangers and others was on KERA&#8217;s Think yesterday (as a replay show). Anyone in the broadcasting business around here knows the name Bill Mercer. And anyone who considers themselves a sports fan has probably heard his voice. In September we spent an hour &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bill-mercer-on-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Mercer on Think<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20,16],"tags":[369,370,371],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop","category-squared-circle","tag-bill-mercer","tag-sports-broadcasting","tag-world-class-championship-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}