{"id":15533,"date":"2009-12-24T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/12\/24\/the-npr-planet-money-one-hour-story-competition-the-shopping-mall-convention\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T07:00:01","slug":"the-npr-planet-money-one-hour-story-competition-the-shopping-mall-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091224-01\/?p=15533","title":{"rendered":"The NPR Planet Money one-hour story competition: The shopping mall convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting closed last night on the second NPR Planet Money one-hour story competition. Three reporters were sent into a convention (this time, the <i>International Council of Shopping Centers<\/i> conference) and given one hour to collect tape for a story. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2009\/12\/podcast_iron_reporter_competit.html\"> Listen to the results<\/a>, either in the full podcast format or just to the three individual stories.\n Each of the stories was interesting in its own way. From Adam Davidson, I learned some mall restaurant jargon. From Chana Joffe-Walt, I learned about the pursuit of the cool kids. And from Alex Blumberg, I learned why a guy dressed in a bright red blazer known only as <i>McGuire<\/i> is the most popular guy at the convention.\n My vote went to Chana&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p> Bonus link: <a href=\"http:\/\/massburger.blogspot.com\/\">The Six Guys&#8217; Blog<\/a>, the blog of Five Guys. (This will make sense after you listen to Alex&#8217;s story.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting closed last night on the second NPR Planet Money one-hour story competition. Three reporters were sent into a convention (this time, the International Council of Shopping Centers conference) and given one hour to collect tape for a story. Listen to the results, either in the full podcast format or just to the three individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-15533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Voting closed last night on the second NPR Planet Money one-hour story competition. Three reporters were sent into a convention (this time, the International Council of Shopping Centers conference) and given one hour to collect tape for a story. Listen to the results, either in the full podcast format or just to the three individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}