{"id":4712,"date":"2009-11-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/11\/traffic-reports-used-to-originate-from-the-washington-monument.html"},"modified":"2009-11-17T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:00:00","slug":"traffic-reports-used-to-originate-from-the-washington-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/11\/traffic-reports-used-to-originate-from-the-washington-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic reports used to originate from the Washington Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/?nid=226&#038;sid=1811041\"><b>30 years of steering you home<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>WTOP<\/i><br \/>The dean of D.C. traffic reporters <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Bob Marbourg<\/span> celebrated his 30th anniversary as a traffic reporter yesterday. Congratulations to him, but the most interesting part of the story was that before he took the job, traffic reports used to come from a department of transportation employee stationed on top of the Washington Monument. That&#8217;s pretty cool and just about impossible to imagine these days with traffic stretching up to 40 miles away from the monument now, but back that then it was pretty resourceful.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Marbourg, what do you suppose the odds that he and morning traffic reporter <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Lisa Baden<\/span> have a rivalry with each other?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/WashingtonMonument\" rel=\"tag\">Washington Monument<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/BobMarbourg\" rel=\"tag\">Bob Marbourg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/WTOP\" rel=\"tag\">WTOP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/trafficreport\" rel=\"tag\">traffic report<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 years of steering you home &#8211; WTOPThe dean of D.C. traffic reporters Bob Marbourg celebrated his 30th anniversary as a traffic reporter yesterday. 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