{"id":2601,"date":"2008-01-29T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-29T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T10:21:43","slug":"this-i-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/this-i-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"This I Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEvery year I send out a year-end letter and a small gift to my Christmas list. The gift is something creative, maybe a self-published book I made in the past year, or a photo, or sometime personal. This year the gift was a letter that got out of hand. I got going while writing a few thoughts prompted by a book assignment and the missive got long. Once it grew, I added a few of my own photographs. The story wanted to be small in the hand, sort of miniature. It needed a design so I fired up InDesign. It wanted to be printed. Then it needed a few staples. The next thing I new it was a small 16-page booklet. I mailed it out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLots of folks sent back kind words. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallison.com\/\">Jay Allison<\/a>, independent producer, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transom.org\/\">Transom<\/a>, and a friend in the radio business thought it should be on the radio, and the next thing I know, I am in the studios of KQED reading a 500-word excerpt of the letter on a show called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisibelieve.org\/\">This I Believe<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNPR sent notice that this 5-minute rant will air in the Bay Area on Sunday, February 3 on KALW (91.7FM) between 3:30 and 4pm, a fairly safe time when no one will be listening.&#160; But you can listen to it (streaming), or download it (at least for two weeks) from <a href=\"javascript:NPR.Player.openPlayer(18463814,%2018494881,%20null,%20NPR.Player.Action.PLAY_NOW,%20NPR.Player.Type.STORY,%20'')\">here<\/a>, or on iTunes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/hiking_200.jpg\" height=\"278\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Hiking 200\" \/>&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs part of the show, they asked if they could post the letter in full, and I said okay. So a very handsome web version of the letter lives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=18463814\">here<\/a> on the NPR site. I will also put up a PDF version of the letter soon,&#160; just because I had it and might as well round out the media choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I send out a year-end letter and a small gift to my Christmas list. The gift is something creative, maybe a self-published book I made in the past year, or a photo, or sometime personal. This year the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/this-i-believe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}