{"id":451,"date":"2014-07-09T01:33:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-07-10T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:05:03","slug":"wbaa-ask-the-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/wbaa-ask-the-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"WBAA: Ask the Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about an upcoming original program on <a href=\"http:\/\/wbaa.org\">WBAA<\/a> that would involve local mayors taking questions from WBAA staff and citizens.\u00a0 Live.\u00a0 On-the-air.<\/p>\n<p>A return to WBAA&#8217;s call-in-show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/uns\/html3month\/2004\/Vruggink.WBAA.html\">AM 920 Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This rumor became a reality last week on July 3rd around noon when <a href=\"http:\/\/wbaa.org\/programs\/ask-mayor\">Ask the Mayor<\/a> debuted on WBAA.\u00a0 The inaugural episode was hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanJast\">Stan Jastrzebski<\/a> and had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorJohnDennis\">Mayor John Dennis<\/a> on as its first guest.\u00a0 You can listen to the <a title=\"Ask the Mayor - WBAA - John Dennis West Lafayette\" href=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/wbaa\/audio\/2014\/07\/ATM140703_3.mp3?origin=body\">show&#8217;s MP3 archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, work forced me to be away from audio during the time it was broad cast.\u00a0 I even had it on my calendar:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-452\" src=\"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Ask-The-Mayor-2014-07-03.jpg\" alt=\"Ask-The-Mayor-2014-07-03\" width=\"175\" height=\"328\" \/>I also missed the rebroadcast at 6PM that day.<\/p>\n<p>Today, WBAA finally posted a link to the show, but sadly, no MP3s were included.\u00a0 They do, however, have an <a href=\"http:\/\/wbaa.org\/feeds\/65248\/rss.xml\">RSS feed<\/a>.\u00a0 No embedded content, though.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this changes soon so I can hear how the first show went.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>UPDATE 2014-07-10<\/strong>: They are online now in the RSS feed. Even today&#8217;s with <a title=\"Ask the Mayor - WBAA - Tony Roswarski Lafayette\" href=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/wbaa\/audio\/2014\/07\/ATM_Roswarski_7-10-14_0.MP3?origin=body\">Mayor Tony Roswarski<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage everyone who cares about their local community to mark in their calendars for 12pm &#8211; 12:30pm on Thursdays and tune in to WBAA&#8217;s local program, Ask the Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>We could certainly use more of this type of local programming. Especially on WBAA. Call them. Encourage them. Let <a href=\"http:\/\/wbaa.org\/people\/mike-savage\">Mike Savage<\/a>, Station Manager, know you want to hear more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about an upcoming original program on WBAA that would involve local mayors taking questions from WBAA staff and citizens.\u00a0 Live.\u00a0 On-the-air. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,78],"tags":[105,107,106,104,103],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-participatory-culture","category-politics","tag-call-in","tag-polilala","tag-politics-2","tag-radio","tag-wbaa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}