{"id":3117,"date":"2005-02-03T07:53:44","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/dan-rathers-replacement\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:50:25","slug":"dan-rathers-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/03\/dan-rathers-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather&#8217;s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9029,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/artsentertainment\\\/2002169010_tvbriefs03.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/artsentertainment\\\/2002169010_tvbriefs03.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9030,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/images.google.com\\\/images?q=claudia+schiffer&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/images.google.com\\\/search?q=claudia+schiffer&amp;tbm=isch&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Every so often over the past day or so, I&#8217;ve seen headlines like this one &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/artsentertainment\/2002169010_tvbriefs03.html\" title=\"Seattle Times: TV briefs: Schieffer is interim replacement for Rather\">Schieffer is interim replacement for Rather<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; only as I didn&#8217;t have a clue who this &#8220;Schieffer&#8221; person was, my brain would conveniently drop the &#8216;e&#8217;, turning the name into &#8220;Schiffer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So for the past day, I&#8217;ve had the vague notion that Dan Rather&#8217;s replacement news anchor would be <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=claudia+schiffer&#38;hl=en&#38;btnG=Google+Search\" title=\"Google Image Search: Claudia Schiffer\">Claudia Schiffer<\/a> (Google Image Search link, probably <acronym title=\"Not Safe For Work\">NSFW<\/acronym>).<\/p>\n<p>Hey, <em>I&#8217;d<\/em> certainly be more interested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DVarious Artists%2526albumTerm=Platinum on Black: The Final Chapter (full mix)%2526songTerm=Platinum on Black: The Final Chapter (full mix)%26partnerId%3D30\">Platinum on Black: The Final Chapter (full mix)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DVarious Artists%26partnerId%3D30\">Various Artists<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DVarious Artists%2526albumTerm=Platinum on Black: The Final Chapter (full mix)%26partnerId%3D30\">Platinum on Black: The Final Chapter (full mix)<\/a><\/em> (1998, 1:16:24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often over the past day or so, I&#8217;ve seen headlines like this &#8216;Schieffer is interim replacement for Rather&#8217;, only my brain would conveniently drop the &#8216;e&#8217;, turning the name into &#8216;Schiffer&#8217;. So for the past day, I&#8217;ve had the vague notion that Dan Rather&#8217;s replacement would be Claudia Schiffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}