Thanks to both of you! With your help I got it working.
I better bone up on bash some more…
Here’s the final Script Filter in case others looking for the same thing happen upon this thread:
time=$(date "+%I:%M %p")
date=$(date "+%A, %B %d, %Y")
cat << EOB
{"items": [
{
"uid": "time",
"title": "${time}",
"subtitle": "${date}"
}
]}
EOB