{"id":371,"date":"2008-10-10T02:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T06:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-10-10T02:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T06:33:31","slug":"smithtown-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/smithtown-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithtown on NPR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A classmate of mine from high school (and junior high, and elementary school, dating back to 2nd grade) appeared on NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered today, in <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=95520570>a segment about Dolly Parton&#8217;s song &#8220;Jolene.&#8221;<\/a> Mindy Smith &#8211; who also shares my birthday &#8211; recorded a version of the song for a Dolly Parton tribute album in 2004, and Parton herself said it was her favorite of the 30-odd covers of the song. (You can buy <a href=<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FJolene-Bonus-Track%2Fdp%2FB000TPSA7Q%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddmusic%26qid%3D1223684097%26sr%3D102-1&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">the mp3 on amazon.com<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.)<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m pimping NPR, the first segment of today&#8217;s Diane Rehm Show, <a href=http:\/\/wamu.org\/programs\/dr\/08\/10\/09.php#21985>&#8220;The International Response to the Financial Credit Freeze&#8221;<\/a>, was an outstanding listen, with a ratio of reason to rhetoric that approached infinity. Nobody screaming about the Dow dropping to 5000 or an imminent depression &#8211; just serious analysis of what&#8217;s happened, what might happen, and what should happen.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Casey Weathers left tonight&#8217;s game holding his elbow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classmate of mine from high school (and junior high, and elementary school, dating back to 2nd grade) appeared on NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered today, in a segment about Dolly Parton&#8217;s song &#8220;Jolene.&#8221; Mindy Smith &#8211; who also shares my birthday &#8211; recorded a version of the song for a Dolly Parton tribute album in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[49,71,844,279],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media","tag-baseball","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-smithtown","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}