{"id":8097,"date":"2016-11-19T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2016-11-18T01:03:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T07:03:57","slug":"kdat-reminds-us-that-winter-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/kdat-reminds-us-that-winter-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"KDAT reminds us that winter is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kdat.com\/kdat-is-your-holiday-music-station\/\">At 9 AM Nov. 15<\/a>, technically less than a week after the presidential election ended, KDAT (104.5) went to all-&#8220;Holiday&#8221; (by which it means &#8220;Christmas&#8221;)-all-the-time. That&#8217;s a late start compared to KMXG (96.1) in Davenport, which is also already all-Christmas and last year<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcreader.com\/news-releases\/music-a-entertainment\/41769-tis-the-season--christmas-music-begins-wednesday\"> started on <em>Nov. 5<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the lame-duck Congress wanted to make itself useful, it would ban such things before Thanksgiving.\u00a0KCVM (96.3) in Cedar Falls won&#8217;t start shaking sleigh bells until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;he said, fully aware that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/life\/people-places\/festival-of-trees-everything-you-need-to-know-20161115\">Cedar Rapids Festival of Trees<\/a> started when this post went live.\u00a0This post was written midweek, before the daily highs dropped 30 degrees in 24 hours.)<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, North Tama&#8217;s superintendent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traerstarclipper.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/522462\/Superintendent-News---Views--Are-You-Prepared-for-Winter-Weather-.html?nav=5011\">wrote about policy for weather-related delays and cancellations<\/a>, and noted that KWWL and KCRG no longer offer text alerts (because, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/31695652\/2016\/04\/Monday\/stay-connected-with-kwwl-after-our-text-messaging-services-end\">get the app<\/a>!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9 AM Nov. 15, technically less than a week after the presidential election ended, KDAT (104.5) went to all-&#8220;Holiday&#8221; (by which it means &#8220;Christmas&#8221;)-all-the-time. That&#8217;s a late start compared to KMXG (96.1) in Davenport, which is also already all-Christmas &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/kdat-reminds-us-that-winter-is-coming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","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=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}