{"id":1550,"date":"2007-07-30T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2007-07-30T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T20:36:00","slug":"rip-tom-snyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Tom Snyder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rq5L0zbEC1I\/AAAAAAAAAno\/VyiqxV-D5Dg\/s1600-h\/z073007tom_snyder.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rq5L0zbEC1I\/AAAAAAAAAno\/VyiqxV-D5Dg\/s400\/z073007tom_snyder.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093091599131609938\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tom Snyder<\/span>, best known for his late night talk show, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tomorrow<\/span> (which aired at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1am<\/span> after <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Tonight Show<\/span> with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Johnny Carson<\/span>), <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">died yesterday<\/span> at the age of<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 71<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>Younger <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ZONErs<\/span> may not know of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tom Snyder<\/span>, but I fondly remember staying up late to catch his show during the summer when I was in junior high and high school.  At the time, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Snyder<\/span> seemed like no other talk show host on television.  His sets were minimal, but his guests and topics more than made up for the lack of showbiz glitz.  He was cool, but not hip.  Most of all, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Snyder<\/span> seemed like a real guy, not a tv show host.  I enjoyed the hours I spent watching his programs and the memories that remain. <\/p>\n<p>My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Snyder, best known for his late night talk show, Tomorrow (which aired at 1am after The Tonight Show with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}