{"id":13724,"date":"2005-01-13T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/rip-whfs\/"},"modified":"2005-01-13T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:22:00","slug":"rip-whfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/rip-whfs\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP WHFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A4390-2005Jan12.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"WHFS\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/whfs.jpg\" \/><\/a>The Washington, D.C. radio station 99.1 WHFS used to be a &ldquo;modern and alternative&rdquo; rock station.  Now it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A4390-2005Jan12.html\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly changed formats to El Zol 99.1<\/a>, a Latino station.  If you try <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whfs.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.whfs.com<\/a><\/i>, you&rsquo;ll see their new logo, but I refuse to drive traffic to their site by actually linking to them.  <\/p>\n<p>WHFS was one of the few local stations where you could hear cool, interesting, unique music, a welcome change from the typical crappy Clear Channel programming omnipresent on other &ldquo;rock&rdquo; stations.  It really blows that they&rsquo;re gone, and although abrupt format changes are apparently the norm in the radio business, the suddenness of this stings all the more&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <i>DCRTV<\/i> has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcrtv.org\/hfs.html\" target=\"_blank\">tribute to WHFS<\/a> that includes a short history of the station as well as interviews with personalities that worked there.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">update link via <a href=\"http:\/\/linkfilter.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linkfilter<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110561904800326618?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington, D.C. radio station 99.1 WHFS used to be a &ldquo;modern and alternative&rdquo; rock station. Now it has suddenly changed formats to El Zol 99.1, a Latino station. If you try http:\/\/www.whfs.com, you&rsquo;ll see their new logo, but I refuse to drive traffic to their site by actually linking to them. WHFS was one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/rip-whfs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP WHFS&#8221;<\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-13724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}