{"id":1644,"date":"2011-10-27T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2011-10-27T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:18:17","slug":"listening-post-a-new-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/10\/27\/listening-post-a-new-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: A new genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The generosity of public radio listeners is an awesome thing. It could move one to poetry. Well&#8211;to be honest&#8211;most things have moved me to poetry at one time or another. But among the countless poems written of young love, or the grandeur of nature, or the majesty of God, the public radio fund drive has been sadly neglected. I offer the following in remedy of that lyrical lapse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Drive Night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The phone begins to ring before sunrise<br \/>\nand will maintain its clamor all day long.<br \/>\n&#8220;Keep saying the number; they will dial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the commandeered studio, volunteers<br \/>\nnod at the callers and fill in the forms.<br \/>\n&#8220;Would you like a thank-you gift?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hour by hour the tally rises: twenty,<br \/>\none-hundred-twenty, three-hundred-<br \/>\nsixty-five. &#8220;Yay!&#8211;dollar-a-day donor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the pitch room iron-jawed announcers<br \/>\nrepeat the mantra\u2014&#8221;Now&#8211;right now&#8211;<br \/>\nthis is the toll-free number\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shift after shift, Monday, Tuesday<br \/>\nHumpday, Thursday, down to the wire.<br \/>\n&#8220;Everyone is entered into the drawing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The map fills in and the merchandise<br \/>\nmelts away. The refrigerator empties.<br \/>\n&#8220;Keep us on track to reach our goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But long after hours, it&#8217;s just the machines.<br \/>\nThe hard drive chatters to the transmitter<br \/>\nall night long, cueing up the classics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to everyone for your inspiring vote of confidence in the work of North Country Public Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The generosity of public radio listeners is an awesome thing. It could move one to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}