{"id":5697,"date":"2024-04-11T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2024-04-11T00:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T00:04:37","slug":"npr-reconsiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/npr-reconsiders\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Reconsiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it. I occasionally listen to NPR. A quarter of a century ago, I even made contributions to the local outlets. No more, of course. There was an old joke about an elderly couple. It makes sense only if you can remember when automobiles came with three-in-the-tree and bench seats. The wife asks, \u201cHow come we don\u2019t sit close together when we ride anymore?\u201d To which the husband in his normal place behind the steering wheel replies, \u201cI haven\u2019t moved.\u201d I sort of feel the same way about NPR and me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5697\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5697\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it. I occasionally listen to NPR. A quarter of a century ago, I even made contributions to the local outlets. No more, of course. There was an old joke about an elderly couple. It makes sense only if you can remember when automobiles came with three-in-the-tree and bench seats. The wife asks, \u201cHow come we don\u2019t sit close together when we ride anymore?\u201d To which the husband in his normal place behind the steering wheel replies, \u201cI haven\u2019t moved.\u201d I sort of feel the same way about NPR and me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5697\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5697\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5698,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}