{"id":104713,"date":"2026-01-03T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104713\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:46:09","slug":"florida-man-craig-pittman-the-year-in-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104713\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man Craig Pittman &#038; The Year in Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"152\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Craig-Pittman-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-251328 size-251328 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCraig Pittman, Author<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve Day, we were joined on MidPoint by that inimitable Florida Man and raconteur, Craig Pittman, Florida Phoenix environmental columnist and author of Oh, Florida and Welcome to Florida.\u00a0 He shared with us some of the notable, weird, and wacky incidents involving Florida Man and Woman over the past year and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the show <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.wmnf.org\/sound\/2025\/wmnf_251231_100600_12newsW1_423.MP3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, on the WMNF app, or as a WMNF Midpoint podcast on Spotify or Apple Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Pittman, Author On Christmas Eve Day, we were joined on MidPoint by that inimitable Florida Man and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,40643,30,3475,29],"class_list":["post-104713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-environment","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-man","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}