{"id":5630,"date":"2019-12-17T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2019-12-17T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:37:38","slug":"secret-coast-radio-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/secret-coast-radio-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Coast Radio #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the Secret Coast Radio\npodcast broadcasting somewhere on the Secret Coast \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us begin by saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer the first person plural over\nthe singular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer mystery over journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer snow over drought. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer walks around lakes before\ndeciding the truth of a matter over decisions made with instant\nuninformed judgment. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer roadside Christmas trees\nrooted in the ground over dead ones suspended in plastic bowls. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer giving books away over having\nthem rot in garages or warehouses. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer George C. Scott&#8217;s portrayal\nof Scrooge over all others. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer schmaltzy Christmas tales\nover decapitating Halloween stories. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer giving gifts of something\nfound at random and then refashioned over ordering crap from a\ncorporate retail center manned by robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer Rosemary Clooney&#8217;s Christmas\nsongs over Mariah Carey&#8217;s, Willie Nelson&#8217;s over Taylor Swift&#8217;s, Sammy\nDavis Junior&#8217;s over John Davidson&#8217;s. And we prefer Bob Dylan&#8217;s\nChristmas album over all others because it seem almost indifferent to\nChristmas, which of course, many people are.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer silent nights over noisy\nones. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We really feel sad for those actors who\nchose to act in Christmas commercials that sell crap to people.  But\nthey made the choice, took the money, and god rest their souls. Maybe\ndecades from now they&#8217;ll perform <em>Christmas Carol<\/em> in a memory\ncare facility, kill it and atone. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer lumps of coal and seed\npackets in stockings over gadget and gewgaws. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is this podcast about? Who are we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like we said, mystery over journalism. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let show number 12 begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The link to the show is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/385945\">http:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/385945<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Secret Coast Radio podcast broadcasting somewhere on the Secret Coast Let us begin by saying: We prefer the first person plural over the singular. We prefer mystery over journalism. We prefer snow over drought. We prefer walks around lakes before deciding the truth of a matter over decisions made with instant uninformed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1067],"tags":[1072,1079],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-secret-coast-radio","tag-oregon-coast-podcast","tag-oregon-podcasts","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}