{"id":337,"date":"2017-12-05T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2018-01-05T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:36:22","slug":"a-moment-of-whimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/05\/a-moment-of-whimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"A moment of whimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We here at <em>Garroway at Large<\/em> World Headquarters have to apologize for the lapse. The culprit was the other manuscript on which I was working. The good news is, it was submitted to a prospective publisher last week. The bad news? It&#8217;s left my writing impulses a little depleted, and I&#8217;ve yet to recover the energy needed to do one of the in-depth pieces of the sort we&#8217;ve recently featured here.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, here&#8217;s a little moment of wonder that never fails to lift my spirits. Here&#8217;s Chicago School-era Dave stopping by to visit his friends Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Whatever&#8217;s in your head right now, whatever worries you may have, put them aside, click &#8220;play,&#8221; and let these few minutes of kinescope footage work their magic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dave Garroway - Kukla, Fran and Ollie\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFo--Kmctsc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We here at Garroway at Large World Headquarters have to apologize for the lapse. The culprit was the other manuscript on which I was working. The good news is, it was submitted to a prospective publisher last week. The bad news? It&#8217;s left my writing impulses a little depleted, and I&#8217;ve yet to recover the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/05\/a-moment-of-whimsy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A moment of whimsy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,13,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-nbc","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}