{"id":1990,"date":"2007-05-10T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T12:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/05\/10\/who-aspires-to-be-the-host-of-an-npr-radio-show\/"},"modified":"2007-05-10T06:40:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T12:40:54","slug":"who-aspires-to-be-the-host-of-an-npr-radio-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/who-aspires-to-be-the-host-of-an-npr-radio-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Who aspires to be the host of an NPR radio show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, <a href=\"http:\/\/publicradioquest.com\/node\/928\">I do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/npr.org\">NPR<\/a> recently started looking for a new host to create their own radio show on NPR. They made it into an<i> American Idol<\/i>-type contest called <a href=\"http:\/\/publicradioquest.com\">Public Radio Talent Quest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not overly thrilled with <a href=\"http:\/\/publicradioquest.com\/node\/928\">my entry<\/a>, nor am I hopeful for my chances. There&#8217;s already almost 600 entries, and still four days until the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and have a listen, and let me know what you think. If you like it, vote on it! If you don&#8217;t, then just quietly step away from the computer.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why I put myself in situations like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, I do. NPR recently started looking for a new host to create their own radio show on NPR. They made it into an American Idol-type contest called Public Radio Talent Quest. I&#8217;m not overly thrilled with my entry, nor am I hopeful for my chances. There&#8217;s already almost 600 entries, and still four days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[289,452,453],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-happenings","tag-npr","tag-radio","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}