{"id":34154,"date":"2023-01-07T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34154"},"modified":"2023-01-07T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:51:32","slug":"a-good-man-at-npr-is-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34154","title":{"rendered":"A good man at NPR is retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll direct your attention to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/01\/07\/1147678871\/npr-national-correspondent-john-burnett-retires-after-36-years-at-the-network\">an eight minute interview<\/a> of NPR reporter John Burnett on his retirment from NPR. The name didn&#8217;t register with me but the voice did. He plays a mean harmonica which tied into a favorite piece of his on a man who played a leaf on the streets of Mexico with such facility that after hearing the broadcast a famous quartet found him and featured him on one of the albumns. <\/p>\n<p>I remembered his reporting from New Orleans during Katrina and he himself said it was the work he considered his most important. At the time President Bush&#8217;s man in charge said the report was nonsense&#8230;.until he confirmed it and sent helicopters to drop aid in the Morell Convention Center where a year I had once attended a National School Board Convention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll direct your attention to an eight minute interview of NPR reporter John Burnett on his retirment from NPR. The name didn&#8217;t register with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34155,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154\/revisions\/34155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}