{"id":419,"date":"2006-09-26T02:04:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2006-09-26T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T05:45:11","slug":"morning-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/26\/morning-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"How It Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. I was lying on the balcony, listening to Morning Stories<\/a> on my iPod. There were cowbells ringing in the background.The story – about a German woman who had Nazi parents and was really angry with them and all Germans – was sort of resonating with me.<\/li>\n
  2. I went inside to look up the WGBH site to drop them a line to thank them for the story and to tell them about our recent conversation with the farmer who was a POW in Texas during WWII. I included a link to my story.<\/li>\n
  3. I got email back almost immediately from Tony Kahn, the show’s producer. He said they loved my story and when could they call so I could read it for them.<\/li>\n
  4. I mailed them back saying, “Oh, we’re off to the city and I will only have my cell phone and we’re running around and blah blah blah and, um, uh, gee, how about, um… does now<\/strong> work? Now would be okay. I guess.”<\/li>\n
  5. The phone rang. It was Gary, the production guy. He said “I just have to get Tony in the studio. I’ll call you back in five minutes.” He did.<\/li>\n
  6. We talked for maybe half an hour about things, Austria and history and podcasting and oh, stuff, and then, Tony asked me to read the story. I did.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It was really cool. And the production guy was sort of amused by the whole insta-technology-connectivity-ness of the thing – as was I. And Tony Kahn is funny and charming and if I were a cat, I’d have curled up on his lap and let him rub my belly.<\/p>\n

    I hope I didn’t say anything stupid because I’m going to be on WGBH Boston’s Morning Stories. I’ll post the link when it’s available, of course. It should be up in about two weeks.<\/p>\n

    Tell ten thousand of your closest friends, okay?<\/p>\n

    [tags]NPR, WGBH, Morning Stories, Tony Kahn[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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