{"id":4211,"date":"2011-05-07T01:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T05:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2011-05-06T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T19:17:13","slug":"love-public-radio-get-your-official-public-radio-name-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/07\/love-public-radio-get-your-official-public-radio-name-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Love public radio?  Get your &#8220;official&#8221; public radio name here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that public radio hosts, personalities, and reporters have compelling names.\u00a0 Sylvia Poggioli, Ofebea Quist-Arcton&#8230;Radio Bob Sauter.<\/p>\n<p>Well now you too can have a public radio name by going to the unofficial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicradionamegenerator.com\/\">Public Radio Name Generator<\/a>.\u00a0 (Hat tip to Jason Brill in Saranac Lake who found this thing.)<\/p>\n<p>Those of us with dull, WASPy, Midwestern names can type in our own name and come up with something, well, NPR-like.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t appear to be very scientific.\u00a0 The creators note that their website &#8220;is  related in no way, shape, or form to National Public Radio, Minnesota  Public Radio, or really, to anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it is thought-provoking.\u00a0 I typed in &#8220;Brian Mann&#8221; and came up with &#8220;Dharma Segel-Davies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 What would my life have been like with a name like that?<\/p>\n<p>Who knows?\u00a0 I might be the host of my own show.\u00a0 Something like &#8220;The Muddle&#8221; or &#8220;Been there, done that&#8221; or maybe a new religion show called &#8220;What the hell?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How about you?\u00a0 What&#8217;s your pub radio name, and what show would you host?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that public radio hosts, personalities, and reporters have compelling names.\u00a0 Sylvia [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211"}],"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=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}