{"id":3325,"date":"2010-12-01T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2010-12-02T15:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T20:33:36","slug":"i-need-government-workers-who-can-talk-about-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/12\/01\/i-need-government-workers-who-can-talk-about-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"I need government workers who can talk about their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a peculiar request:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve begun developing a project with National Public Radio and our own news room to tell the story over time of a government worker in the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for two or three people who earn their living in government.\u00a0 Ideally, I&#8217;d find one state employee, one local government employee, and one school district worker.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be asking people to disclose confidential or sensitive information.\u00a0 I only want to get a sense over time of what it&#8217;s like to work in government agencies &#8212; at a time when the pressure is on to downsize, accept pay cuts, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fine if you are a union member (obviously) but I prefer that you not be a union official.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, we would talk first in more detail about how to coordinate our interviews in such a way that your managers or superiors are comfortable with your involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Our conversations would be part of a national project, airing on NPR.\u00a0 If you think this sounds interesting, please contact me via email at brian@ncpr.org.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re just curious, send a note and I&#8217;ll fill in more details.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a peculiar request: I&#8217;ve begun developing a project with National Public Radio and our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4833,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}