{"id":5222,"date":"2012-04-08T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2012-04-08T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T15:18:26","slug":"rip-mike-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/rip-mike-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mike Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2889\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2012\/04\/Obit_Mike_Wallace_0fa46-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" title=\"Obit_Mike_Wallace_0fa46\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2889\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Wallace of CBS News 60 minutes, died at age 93<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/mike-wallace-60-minutes-star-interviewer-dies\/2012\/04\/08\/gIQAdKiq3S_story.html?wpisrc=al_national\">reports<\/a> that Mike Walace has died.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mike Wallace didn\u2019t interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them.<\/p>\n<p>His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were \u201cMike Wallace is here to see you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He retired as a regular correspondent in 2006, but continued to work after that, interviewing Mitt Romney, Roger Klemens, and Jack Kevorkian in 2007.  Wallace was the first reporter hired when the &#8220;60 minutes&#8221; staff was first put together in 1968.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that Mike Walace has died. Mike Wallace didn\u2019t interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were \u201cMike Wallace is here to see you.\u201d He retired as a regular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/rip-mike-wallace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Mike Wallace<\/span> <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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1me","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}