{"id":573890503,"date":"2018-01-24T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890503"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:07:53","slug":"a-national-news-reporter-joins-our-little-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/a-national-news-reporter-joins-our-little-program\/","title":{"rendered":"A national news reporter joins our little program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have to give a tour of our building and so I talk about the journalism and the sports media and the research area and all of our cool classroom technology and so on. And then sometimes there&#8217;s a great flier up. Like this one which is up this week, that would let me tell someone more about the video game programs:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan18\/jan45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Come to college! Play games! <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how hard a sell that on parents. But once they get here, they have a really great setup, and some incredibly talented peers. Someone is down in the game lab as I&#8217;m writing this and they&#8217;re making some impossibly cool game. It&#8217;s another one of those worlds that most of us don&#8217;t understand. Then they&#8217;ll launch the beginning of a career or create another gaming success and all of us will think &#8220;Well why didn&#8217;t I come up with that?&#8221; while we download it or go buy it or whatever you do your video game purchases these days. <\/p>\n<p>They should come up with a cool little easter egg to drop in the background shots, so we all know when we run across an IU developer. <\/p>\n<p>NBC correspondent Chris Pollone joined the podcast today. He&#8217;s a good get, and this is a pretty great story he&#8217;s talking about. A reporter found, perhaps, what is thought to be the last ship to deliver slaves into the United States. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/bmj4c-84ee72?from=site&#038;vjs=1&#038;skin=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chris will be back on the show next week, too. And tomorrow, we may really hit the big time. And I have now shifted all of the latest episodes to Podbean for hosting purposes. It just seemed a good time to up the game a little bit. Now I just need to get the thing syndicated to streaming sites.  <\/p>\n<p>More on <a TARGET=\"Blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kennysmith\">Twitter<\/a> and check me out on <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/\">Instagram<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have to give a tour of our building and so I talk about the journalism and the sports media and the research area and all of our cool classroom technology and so on. And then sometimes there&#8217;s a great flier up. Like this one which is up this week, that would let me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,10,70,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-photo","category-podcast","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890504,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890503\/revisions\/573890504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}