{"id":3552,"date":"2024-09-02T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2024-12-22T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:40:18","slug":"happy-birthday-dale-dorman-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/09\/happy-birthday-dale-dorman-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Dale Dorman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">September 2, 1943 \u2013 October 21, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Beloved \u201cUncle Dale\u201d Dorman was an American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame radio disc jockey with a career that included nearly 40 years on Boston radio stations \u2013WRKO (1968-78), WXKS-FM (1978-2003), and WODS (2003-2008). For many of us that grew up in the 1970s and 80s, \u201cUncle Dale\u201d was the playful and humorous voice of WLVI-TV56\u2019s children\u2019s television programming and occasional introductions to our Saturday afternoon Creature Double Feature!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2160\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dale-Dorman_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dale Dorman \u2022 September 2, 1943 \u2013 October 21, 2014\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dale-Dorman_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dale-Dorman_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dale-Dorman_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dale-Dorman_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dale-Dorman_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2, 1943 \u2013 October 21, 2014 Beloved \u201cUncle Dale\u201d Dorman was an American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame radio disc jockey with a career that included nearly 40 years on Boston radio stations \u2013WRKO (1968-78), WXKS-FM (1978-2003), and WODS (2003-2008). For many of us that grew up in the 1970s and 80s, \u201cUncle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[597,15,7,5,6,595,598,32,515,105,596,8],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-bostonma","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-daledorman","tag-discjockey","tag-happybirthday","tag-radio","tag-television","tag-uncledale","tag-wlvitv56"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dale-Dorman_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}