{"id":5230,"date":"2017-02-22T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2017-02-21T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:51:53","slug":"listen-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/listen-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen up"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Alyssa James\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>Unlike other forms of entertainment that are popular amongst the college crowd such as television, music and movies, there is one that is under-appreciated: the podcast. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2017\/02\/ted_radio_hour_logo-wnyc.org-edit-color-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5284 alignleft\" \/>Podcasts can cover a wide variety of topics, from news to technology to history. For students, there are plenty of podcasts worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>One such podcast is \u201cModern Love\u201d through WBUR. It is based off the New York Times column and explores the rollercoaster that is love. The premise of the podcast is sharing stories about love, whether they are truly happy stories or more trivial. A new podcast is released every Thursday and can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/modernlove\">www.wbur.org\/modernlove<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReply All\u201d is a podcast with a different focus: the internet and technology. However, according to Nick Quah from Vulture, \u201cDespite the name, \u2018Reply All\u2019 isn\u2019t a podcast about technology &#8211; it\u2019s a podcast that tells gorgeous, painfully human stories that happen to have bits of technology sprinkled in.\u201d To find out more about this podcast or to subscribe to it, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimletmedia.com\/reply-all\/\">www.gimletmedia.com\/reply-all\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a more well-known podcast, TED Talks are available to listen to through the TED radio show, co-produced by NPR and TED. TED Talks discuss creative ways of thinking, new inventions and out-of-the-box ideas. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/ted-radio-hour\/\">www.npr.org\/programs\/ted-radio-hour\/<\/a>, there is more information about where to listen.<\/p>\n<p>Whether hanging out in a dorm, driving around or waiting for another next class to start, listening to a podcast can be an entertaining way of spending one\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at ajames16@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Alyssa James Staff Writer Unlike other forms of entertainment that are popular amongst the college crowd such as television, music and movies, there is one that is under-appreciated: the podcast. Podcasts can cover a wide variety of topics, from news to technology to history. For students, there are plenty of podcasts worth checking out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}