{"id":54134,"date":"2015-07-06T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54134"},"modified":"2015-07-06T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:24:51","slug":"a-tiny-jolt-of-humanity-update-well-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54134","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Jolt Of Humanity (UPDATE: Well, No)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to the droning, self-important, sonorous, dolorous thrum\u00a0of National Public Radio news the other day, a brief, almost strobe-light-like flash of levity, of playfulness, of <em>fun<\/em>\u00a0leaked through, as refreshing as the first shoot of springtime flowers jutting out from beneath the thawing ground; one of NPR&#8217;s newscasters, one of their weekend female anchors, has apparently chosen the air name &#8220;Whizzer Johnston&#8221;. \u00a0Like some kind of starting pitcher for the Red Sox from the fifties.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still smiling, thinking about it. What a wonderful choice!<\/p>\n<p>The world is not such a bad place, after all.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I&#8217;m told her name is <i>Windsor\u00a0<\/i>Johnston. Good Lord \u2013 we&#8217;ve gone from the best NPR name ever to the worst inside of two paragraphs. \u00a0 Why not &#8220;Shoshonna Gaia-Cohen&#8221;, for crying out loud?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. And so we trudge on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to the droning, self-important, sonorous, dolorous thrum\u00a0of National Public Radio news the other day, a brief, almost strobe-light-like flash of levity, of playfulness, of fun\u00a0leaked through, as refreshing as the first shoot of springtime flowers jutting out from beneath the thawing ground; one of NPR&#8217;s newscasters, one of their weekend female anchors, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54134","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=54134"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54185,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54134\/revisions\/54185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}