{"id":31023,"date":"2006-05-30T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/05\/30\/mellifluous-npr-reporter-name-ofeibea-quist-arcton\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T10:00:08","slug":"mellifluous-npr-reporter-name-ofeibea-quist-arcton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060530-08\/?p=31023","title":{"rendered":"Mellifluous NPR reporter name: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4513318\"> Ofeibea Quist-Arcton<\/a> when she reported for the BBC. Now she&#8217;s on NPR (you can listen to her discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5427290\"> corruption in Nigeria<\/a> in this recent report), thereby wresting the title of &#8220;most mellifluous NPR reporter name&#8221; from its previous holder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2101034\"> Sylvia Poggioli<\/a>. (Sylvia Poggioli&#8217;s dirty secret: She was born and grew up in the United States!)\n Other NPR personalities with cool-sounding names: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2100359\"> Andrei Codrescu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2100429\"> Mandalit del Barco<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2101041\"> Snigdha Prakash<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2101350\"> Eric Westervelt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/anchors_reporters\/amanpour.christiane.html\"> Christiane Amanpour<\/a> has a nice name, too, but she works for CNN, not NPR. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard Ofeibea Quist-Arcton when she reported for the BBC. Now she&#8217;s on NPR (you can listen to her discuss corruption in Nigeria in this recent report), thereby wresting the title of &#8220;most mellifluous NPR reporter name&#8221; from its previous holder, Sylvia Poggioli. (Sylvia Poggioli&#8217;s dirty secret: She was born and grew up in [&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-31023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I first heard Ofeibea Quist-Arcton when she reported for the BBC. Now she&#8217;s on NPR (you can listen to her discuss corruption in Nigeria in this recent report), thereby wresting the title of &#8220;most mellifluous NPR reporter name&#8221; from its previous holder, Sylvia Poggioli. (Sylvia Poggioli&#8217;s dirty secret: She was born and grew up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31023","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=31023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31023\/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=31023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}