{"id":14,"date":"2007-12-20T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kogblog.salticid.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:52:18","slug":"goal-60-listener-contestant-on-wait-wait-dont-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/2007\/12\/goal-60-listener-contestant-on-wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal 60: listener-contestant on Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/waitwait\/\">Wait Wait<\/a> phone number in the spring but never got a call back. A few weeks ago I sent an email, mentioning two semi-interesting things (our town, Friendsville, was so called because it was originally a planned community for Quakers; and I have fun staffing <a href=\"http:\/\/askherepa.org\">Ask Here PA<\/a>, live chat reference). An extremely nice Wait Wait staffer called me. I was on standby last week and tonight got to be the first caller, playing &#8220;Carl&#8217;s Countdown.&#8221; The really cool part was hearing the warm-up. Live, it&#8217;s a 2-hour show, which they edit down to the best bits. I would love to see it in person someday. It was very exciting&#8211;nerve-wracking to be on the phone waiting!&#8211;and I got all 3 questions right (although I was kinda disappointed they even tackled the topic of the last one, as you&#8217;ll hear if you listen). Tomorrow I&#8217;m supposed to get a call about the details of the prize&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/for_wp\/carl.mp3\">Carl Kasell on our answering machine<\/a>! That&#8217;s the very first of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/?p=11\">101 in 1001 days<\/a> list done. Here&#8217;s me in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/for_wp\/20071222_waitwait_01.mp3\">opening segment (I do Carl&#8217;s Countdown)<\/a>. Woo-hoo\/w00t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I called the Wait Wait phone number in the spring but never got a call back. A few weeks ago I sent an email, mentioning two semi-interesting things (our town, Friendsville, was so called because it was originally a planned community for Quakers; and I have fun staffing Ask Here PA, live chat reference). An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6,12],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","tag-goals","tag-wait-wait-dont-tell-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}