{"id":4204,"date":"2009-02-12T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:00:01","slug":"overcommitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4204","title":{"rendered":"Overcommitted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chad the Elder makes it official; he’s retiring from the NARN<\/a>\u00a0after an almost-five-year run.<\/p>\n

And the piece is actually a great retrospective, not only on the NARN’s history, but on the thing that’s always made the show(s) unique:<\/p>\n

I would hope that most of the time we’ve played the role of serious amateurs on the NARN. I doubt if there’s been much temptation to succumb to delusions of grandeur since doing a Saturday radio show from the catacombs of the Patriot studio in Eagan hardly lends itself to thoughts of grandeur (although when the septic system backed up people did get a bit delusional).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have wondered for a while how long Chad would be able to balance three\u00a0toddlers and a productive\u00a0day job with the Saturday gig.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We’re about three weeks away from our fifth anniversary – which, when I step back and say it, blows my mind.\u00a0 In 18 years spent doing one kind of radio or another over the past (gulp) 30 years, I never had a job (or in this case, “job”) last more than two years, to say nothing of five.\u00a0 Which isn’t bad, for an enterprise that most of the NARN cast gave between three weeks and a year, way back when.<\/p>\n

Anyway – all the best, Chad, and here’s hoping we can keep things running until your calendar frees up just a tad.\u00a0 It’s been five great years…<\/p>\n

\u00a0…although I can’t help but wonder if he’s skipping out to avoid some karmic justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chad the Elder makes it official; he’s retiring from the NARN\u00a0after an almost-five-year run. And the piece is actually a great retrospective, not only on the NARN’s history, but on the thing that’s always made the show(s) unique: I would hope that most of the time we’ve played the role of serious amateurs on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}