{"id":85759,"date":"2023-10-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85759"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:50:03","slug":"the-wandering-line-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85759","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit Is Due, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big &#8220;podcast&#8221; person.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But since I got a car that reads my phone&#8217;s bluetooth without a lot of muss and fuss, I wind up listening to some of them anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s probably not a huge leap that I found my way to Mike Rowe&#8217;s <em>The Way I Heard It<\/em> podcast.  It started years ago as a riff on Paul Harvey&#8217;s old &#8220;The <em>Rest <\/em>Of The Story&#8221; blurbcast, and has evolved into something more like Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson&#8217;s podcasts, for people who like their great interviews in one hour chunks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Rowe&#8217;s <em>Dirty Jobs<\/em>, it focuses on people who are just a tad off the beaten path who nonetheless have fascinating stories to tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnny Joey Johnson &#8211; a Marine EOD tech who lost both legs in Afghanistan &#8211; iis one of them.  If you haven&#8217;t heard it, I&#8217;ll. commend it to your attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: 328: Johnny Joey Jones is Unbroken\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0x0OW7RRGFdoGJj0SoYkLM?si=cf66524c7f6e42c4&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In it, Jones plugs his new book, in which he talks about ten people who shaped him, sometimes without knowing it until long after the fact, and for whose influence he&#8217;s grateful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea grabbed me &#8211; especially since gratitude has become such an important theme for me lately (more on that in November).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So over the next couple of weeks, I&#8217;m going to do the same&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, not the <em>same <\/em>thing.  Something similar.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big &#8220;podcast&#8221; person. But since I got a car that reads my phone&#8217;s bluetooth without a lot of muss and fuss, I wind up listening to some of them anyway. It&#8217;s probably not a huge leap that I found my way to Mike Rowe&#8217;s The Way I Heard It podcast. It started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wandering-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85759","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=85759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85761,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85759\/revisions\/85761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}