{"id":1126,"date":"2006-03-29T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/03\/29\/storycorps\/"},"modified":"2006-03-29T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T15:21:26","slug":"storycorps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/storycorps\/","title":{"rendered":"StoryCorps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storycorps.net\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"storycorps.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2006\/03\/storycorps.gif?resize=230%2C37\" width=\"230\" height=\"37\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storycorps.net\/\">StoryCorps<\/a> is coming to Austin for a stay from 4\/6 &#8211; 4\/30. It&#8217;s a partnership between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\">NPR<\/a> and the American Folklife Center at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/\">Library of Congress<\/a>. The idea is to preserve oral histories of Americans through interviews recorded in the booths. There&#8217;s a suggested donation of $10. You take an hour to record an interview with someone whose story you&#8217;d like to preserve. At the end, you get a CD for yourself and the interview will be added to all of the other StoryCorps interviews and archived at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This is the perfect opportunity to get stories out of your grandparents and get them on record. Very cool. I really regret not having done this with my grandparents. I wish the few remaining relatives that I do have from the WW II generation lived locally because I&#8217;d have them over there in a heartbeat. As it is, I&#8217;m signing up for something anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storycorps.net\/participate\/record_an_interview\/locations\/\">reserve a spot<\/a> to record your own interview starting tomorrow morning at 10am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StoryCorps is coming to Austin for a stay from 4\/6 &#8211; 4\/30. It&#8217;s a partnership between NPR and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The idea is to preserve oral histories of Americans through interviews recorded in the booths. There&#8217;s a suggested donation of $10. You take an hour to record an <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/storycorps\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-ia","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}