{"id":28091,"date":"2012-03-12T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=28091"},"modified":"2012-03-12T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T17:40:04","slug":"peter-bergman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/03\/12\/peter-bergman\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend of KPFK, Peter Bergman Dies at Age 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031212\/2012_03_12_bergman.mp3\">this segment<\/a>  | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031212\/2012_03_12_uprising.mp3\"> entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40%  src=\"\/home\/graphics\/peterbergman.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Peter Bergman, a founding member of the Firesign Theater comedy troupe and host of Radio Free Oz here on KPFK in the late the late &#8217;60s, passed away Friday March 9th, in Santa Monica, at the age of 72. A spokesperson said he died due to complications of leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>The Firesign Theater albums gained a cult following for their satrical and absurd routines that skewered power figures and ridiculed the status quo. In 1972 a  New York Times review described the Firesign Theater albums as works of, &#8220;intricate wordplay, stunning engineering and use of sound effects, breakneck pacing and, of course, a terribly complex story line.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Bergman was a valued programmer and friend of KPFK and Pacifica Radio. He will be missed. We&#8217;ll go now to a clip of the Firesign Theater&#8217;s piece titled, &#8220;What is America made of?&#8221; from side B of their album, &#8220;How Can You Be In Two Places At Once, When You&#8217;re Not Anywhere At All&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this segment | entire program Peter Bergman, a founding member of the Firesign Theater comedy troupe and host of Radio Free Oz here on KPFK in the late the late &#8217;60s, passed away Friday March 9th, in Santa Monica, at the age of 72. A spokesperson said he died due to complications of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}