{"id":103,"date":"2007-03-24T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/03\/ode-to-a-voice.html"},"modified":"2007-03-24T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T14:12:00","slug":"ode-to-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/03\/ode-to-a-voice.html","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t play the markets. I don’t own a business. I don’t even quite understand “the markets” or how one goes about deciding what to do once one’s gotten oneself into them. And yet, I’m always pleasantly surprised to find myself driving home from work between 6:30 and 7:00 when “Market Place<\/a>” is on NPR. <\/p>\n

I listen and wonder what “points” are and how they compare to percents. I hear about how close housing bubbles are to popping and imagine exploding spherical houses spraying cool bits of house all over suburban neighborhoods. And then there’s the whole international market in which the dollar closes down and the euro closes up and the yen… well, you never can tell with yen.<\/p>\n

So why does it make me smile when I climb into the car, turn on the radio, and realize Market Place is on? Because Kai Ryssdal<\/a> is the voice of Market Place and has been for a year and a half now. He doesn’t take things too seriously, and he always puts his own humorous twist on things. The way he delivers the news makes it seem so very accessible, and it makes him seem so very human. It takes an incredible amount of skill to sound that natural on the radio.<\/p>\n

So I’ll keep having visions of popping houses and floating currency, and little by little I might even learn something, all because of a compelling voice on the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t play the markets. I don’t own a business. I don’t even quite understand “the markets” or how one goes about deciding what to do once one’s gotten oneself into them. And yet, I’m always pleasantly surprised to find myself driving home from work between 6:30 and 7:00 when “Market Place” is on NPR. … Continue reading Ode to a Voice<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}