{"id":2353,"date":"2016-07-29T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2016-07-29T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:40:22","slug":"oops-easy-ed-perdue-also-was-one-of-the-founders-of-the-bremerton-athletic-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"Oops! &#8220;Easy&#8221; Ed Perdue also was one of the founders of the Bremerton Athletic Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Perdue\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue-135x90.jpg 135w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue-85x57.jpg 85w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue-280x187.jpg 280w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue-576x385.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue-145x97.jpg 145w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ed-Perdue-566x378.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EASY ED PERDUE WITH HIS\u00a0EVER-PRESENT PIPE<\/p>\n<p>By Terry Mosher<\/p>\n<p>Editor, Sports Paper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How could I forget \u201cEasy\u201d Ed Perdue?<\/p>\n<p>But I did.<\/p>\n<p>When I mentioned in a recent column on the Carlson family for the Kitsap Sun that the Bremerton Athletic Roundtable (now Kitsap Athletic Roundtable) was founded in the early 1960s by these men \u2013 Linc Perry, Don Lay Sr., Jim Carlson, Bernie Burke, Dick Bearbower and Ray Hall \u2013 I left out Easy Ed. He also was one of the founders.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Perdue was a sportswriter for the old Bremerton Sun at the time and was a familiar man around town who coached youth teams and was an avid golfer who loved to smoke a pipe.<\/p>\n<p>A Washington State graduate, Perdue also was one of the founders of the Bremerton Babe Ruth program. One of his two sons, Joe Perdue, is a PGA professional and owner of the Hidden Meadows Golf Course in Old Town, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Perdue died July 1, 2007. He was 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASY ED PERDUE WITH HIS\u00a0EVER-PRESENT PIPE By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper &nbsp; How could I forget \u201cEasy\u201d Ed Perdue?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}