{"id":16035,"date":"2025-10-02T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16035"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:18:37","slug":"when-saturday-morning-was-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/when-saturday-morning-was-great\/","title":{"rendered":"When Saturday morning was great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the loss of Looney Tunes in the Saturday morning lineup 25 years ago (!) was the <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/when-the-end-of-mass-media-began\">beginning of the end of Americans&#8217; shared culture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/when-the-end-of-mass-media-began\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16036\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_cartoons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_cartoons.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_cartoons-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_cartoons-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the loss of Looney Tunes in the Saturday morning lineup 25 years ago (!) was the beginning of the end of Americans&#8217; shared culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16037,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions\/16037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}