{"id":304849,"date":"2026-06-12T05:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304849\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:42:11","slug":"sotd-6-12-26-bus-to-tampa-bay-by-tom-petty-the-heartbreakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304849\/","title":{"rendered":"SOTD 6\/12\/26: Bus to Tampa Bay by Tom Petty &#038; The Heartbreakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"285\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781242930_615_image.png\" class=\"attachment-260860 size-260860 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a90bc71e-18fb-4266-b784-5c49f05ff165-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260865\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500085042691431;width:241px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WMNF Song of the Day for June 12, 2026 is \u201cBus to Tampa Bay\u201d by Tom Petty &amp; The Heartbreakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF has a long relationship with Mr. Thomas Earl Petty, most common known as Tom Petty. In fact, for years we have been marking his birthday by hosting the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/wmnf_events\/6th-annual-tom-petty-birthday-tribute-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Petty Tribute show<\/a>.  We are very likely to be hosting this popular event again in 2026!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Petty is from Gainesville, just a couple hours  bus ride north of Tampa Bay on I-75.  TO our ear, there\u2019s a  hint of Mudcrutch in the loose, rootsy atmosphere of \u201cBus to Tampa Bay\u201d  that reaches back to Tom Petty\u2019s Gainesville days. The song feels deeply connected to Petty\u2019s lifelong fascination with outsiders, drifters, and people chasing redemption somewhere down the road. Combined with the historical imagery of Osceola and the Everglades, the song becomes a meditation on resistance and survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tompetty.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tompetty.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20241218_093527612-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260863\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WMNF Song of the Day for June 12, 2026 is \u201cBus to Tampa Bay\u201d by Tom Petty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136,127700,51018],"class_list":["post-304849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tom-petty","tag-wmnf-song-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304849","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=304849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}