{"id":576467,"date":"2010-05-24T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2010-05-24T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:41:54","slug":"worst-radio-guest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576467","title":{"rendered":"Worst radio guest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3309\" title=\"IMG_1640\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/05\/125-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1640\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><strong>Donna Rodriguez<\/strong> was kind enough to invite me to talk live on her weekly radio program, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dishingwithdonnashow.com\/\"><strong>Dishing with Donna Show<\/strong><\/a>, which airs every Saturday at 2 p.m., on WGKA 920 AM.<\/p>\n<p>How did I repay this kindness? By showing up 20 minutes late, that&#8217;s how. Between closed highway lanes and a highly regrettable &#8220;if only I had first looked at a map moment,&#8221; I left this poor woman alone to <em>stall<\/em> until I burst into the studio. Me, I would have been poems I had memorized in junior high school <em>(&#8221;Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me&#8230;&#8221;)<\/em>, or just mumbling. Donna instead was coolly talking about the building blocks of effective food writing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, you can read about Rodriguez&#8217;s experience of keeping it together <a href=\"http:\/\/dishingwithdonnashow.blogspot.com\/\">here, on her blog. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also recommend the show that, as far as I know, is the only hour of broadcast in Atlanta devoted solely to food and restaurants. Rodriguez does a lot of prep before each show, so the conversation moves briskly and with purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Do you listen to &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Rodriguez was kind enough to invite me to talk live on her weekly radio program, the Dishing with Donna Show, which airs every Saturday at 2 p.m., on WGKA 920 AM. How did I repay this kindness? By showing up 20 minutes late, that&#8217;s how. Between closed highway lanes and a highly regrettable &#8220;if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}