{"id":497,"date":"2014-01-08T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=497"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:42:58","slug":"great-readings-ghosts-and-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/great-readings-ghosts-and-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Readings &#8211; &#8216;Ghosts and Angels&#8217; from Selected Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot urge you enough to go and grab the <a title=\"Ghosts and Angels - Selected Shorts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectedshorts.org\/2013\/12\/ghosts-and-angels-with-guest-host-robert-sean-leonard\/\">&#8220;Ghosts and Angels&#8221; Selected Shorts podcast episode<\/a> <em>now<\/em>, like RIGHT NOW, before it goes away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GhostsAndAngels.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-498\" alt=\"Ghosts and Angels - Selected Shorts\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GhostsAndAngels-169x300.png\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghosts and Angels &#8211; Selected Shorts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made it through two of the stories so far, and both of the readings are excellent, but the late founder of the Selected Shorts program, Isaiah Sheffer, reads a James Thurber short story and it just sparkles and is more than worth the cost of the bandwidth it will take to download the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>More often than not, when I imagine a short story of mine read aloud I imagine Sheffer&#8217;s voice &#8212; he was just an amazing reader and takes such an obvious delight in Thurber&#8217;s very funny story about the ghost in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/selected-shorts-ghosts-and-angels\/\">directly to WYNC<\/a>, do not pass &#8216;Go&#8217;, do not collect $200, just go listen, quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot urge you enough to go and grab the &#8220;Ghosts and Angels&#8221; Selected Shorts podcast episode now, like RIGHT NOW, before it goes away. I&#8217;ve made it through two of the stories so far, and both of the readings are excellent, but the late founder of the Selected Shorts program, Isaiah Sheffer, reads a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}