{"id":127398,"date":"2017-08-20T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127398"},"modified":"2017-08-21T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:29:26","slug":"former-wday-announcer-don-dresser-passes-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127398","title":{"rendered":"Former WDAY announcer Don Dresser, passes, 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div id=\"attachment_127399\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127399\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127399\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DressrerDon-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DressrerDon-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DressrerDon-311x175.jpg 311w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DressrerDon.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-127399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WDAY Photos<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fargo\u00a0 (WDAY) \u00a0&#8212; WDAY reports Fargo radio pioneerDon Dresser\u00a0 passed\u00a0 away Friday away at 84.<\/p>\n<p>WDAY reports, Don spent more than 30 years at the WDAY-AM microphone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>The New York Mills native was teamed with Earl Williams for many years, and also worked with the other great stars of radio and TV.<\/p>\n<p>Marv, Boyd and Dewey. In radio, Morrie Carlson, and Orly Knutson were Don&#8217;s sidekicks.<\/p>\n<p>Don started in radio in the mid-1950s, and retired from WDAY in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>He had the chance to move on to bigger cities, but Don lived in Dilworth with his family, and worked the morning radio shift for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Don was inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral for Don Dresser will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Dilworth Lutheran Church. There is a 7 p.m. prayer service Tuesday night at the church.<\/p>\n<p>Wright Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fargo\u00a0 (WDAY) \u00a0&#8212; WDAY reports Fargo radio pioneerDon Dresser\u00a0 passed\u00a0 away Friday away at 84. WDAY reports, Don spent more than 30 years at the WDAY-AM microphone. The New York Mills native was teamed with Earl Williams for many years, and also worked with the other great stars of radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127401,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127398\/revisions\/127401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}