{"id":33399,"date":"2023-04-27T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=33399"},"modified":"2023-04-27T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:31:45","slug":"jerry-springer-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=33399","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Springer, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/springer.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/springer-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/springer-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/springer-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/springer-400x297.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/springer.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> CHICAGO &#8212; Jerry Springer, the celebrated talk show host and former Mayor of Cincinnati, died April 27, at his home here, after a &#8220;brief illness.&#8221; He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>Springer was best known for his 27-year, near-4,000-episode run as the host of the eponymous talkshow, which featured guests who purportedly engaged in controversial behavior. Springer loomed so large in pop culture that he was even the subject of a parody by Weird Al Yankovic. <\/p>\n<p>MSTies may remember that was mentioned in a host segment in episode 905- THE DEADLY BEES.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Torgover for the heads up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/> CHICAGO &#8212; Jerry Springer, the celebrated talk show host and former Mayor of Cincinnati, died April 27, at his home here, after a &#8220;brief illness.&#8221; He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>Springer was best known for his 27-year, near-4,000-episode run as the host of the eponymous talkshow, which featured guests who purportedly engaged in controversial [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33401,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399\/revisions\/33401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}