{"id":46585,"date":"2017-08-19T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=46585"},"modified":"2017-08-18T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:26:33","slug":"vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-455-august-30-1997-wcw-salaries-roster-expanding-accommodate-new-show-mitchells-night-legends-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/08\/19\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-455-august-30-1997-wcw-salaries-roster-expanding-accommodate-new-show-mitchells-night-legends-column\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #455 (August 30, 1997): WCW salaries and roster expanding to accommodate new show, Mitchell&#8217;s &#8220;Night with the Legends&#8221; column, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3629937327\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><em>We are now posting PWTorch Digital Newsletter PDFs for the year 1997 for the first time ever. These issues from 1997 have never been made available in their original format since their original printing press run 20 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"s1\">SUMMARY of #455 cover-dated August 30, 1997: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">This issue headlines with a story on WCW salaries and roster expanding to accomodate a new show (the future Thunder)&#8230; Bruce Mitchell&#8217;s &#8220;Night with the Legends&#8221; column&#8230; WCW Clash of the Champions coverage&#8230; Letters to the Editor on recent major events&#8230; Plus WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire, reports on Nitro, ECW TV, USWA TV, ECW Newswire, ETC. 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These issues from 1997 have never been made available in their original format since their original printing press <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/08\/19\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-455-august-30-1997-wcw-salaries-roster-expanding-accommodate-new-show-mitchells-night-legends-column\/\" title=\"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #455 (August 30, 1997): WCW salaries and roster expanding to accommodate new show, Mitchell&#8217;s &#8220;Night with the Legends&#8221; column, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1361],"tags":[4299,3223,3286],"class_list":["post-46585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1997-back-issue","tag-clash-of-champions","tag-wcw-thunder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/08\/TorchCover455_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46587,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585\/revisions\/46587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}