{"id":6343,"date":"2013-09-04T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2013-09-04T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T10:13:08","slug":"can-you-say-thank-you-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/09\/04\/can-you-say-thank-you-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you say &#8220;thank you&#8221; too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4493\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/06\/barb.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4493\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4493 \" alt=\"Photo: Jonathan Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/06\/barb.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/06\/barb.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/06\/barb-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jonathan Brown<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We were notified yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/08\/30\/217303423\/npr-and-on-air-credits-the-end-of-a-thank-you?ft=1&amp;f=1001&amp;sc=tw&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">NPR will be eliminating staff recognition <\/a>messages at the end of Morning Edition. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard these through the years&#8211;various producers, writers, researches, editors who work behind the scenes receiving thanks at the end of each program.<\/p>\n<p>This may seem like a trivial change to you or it may feel like an erosion of something meaningful. From the post: &#8220;&#8230;\u00a0a decision has been reached to end all forms of on-air thank yous because research says it&#8217;s a turn-off and, in the end, all forms of thank yous are never enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you go to the link I&#8217;ve provided, you can see the full message from Morning Edition producer Jim Wildman (whose name you will not hear again)&#8230;and, you can weigh in on the conversation with other listeners around the country.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I know for sure: you can never say &#8220;thank you&#8221; too many times to those who make your work possible&#8211;listeners, readers, colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Do those &#8220;thank yous&#8221; belong on the air?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were notified yesterday that NPR will be eliminating staff recognition messages at the end [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[89,5390,6260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}