{"id":7409,"date":"2016-09-19T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:13:27","slug":"how-a-love-of-fiction-inspired-npr-journalist-ari-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/how-a-love-of-fiction-inspired-npr-journalist-ari-shapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Love of Fiction Inspired NPR Journalist Ari Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/Behind-the-News-of-the-Moment-with-Ari-Shapiro-NPR-Dinner-in-the-Library-2016-31184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/31184.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2101154\/ari-shapiro\"target=\"_blank\">Ari Shapiro<\/a>, co-host of NPR\u2019 All Things Considered, charmed a book-loving audience at UC San Diego with tales of how his English classes at Yale set him up for a fascinating career of storytelling in journalism. He recounts his early days as an intern at NPR and traces the steps that took him from Washington to London, Sarajevo, Ukraine, Turkey, India, and elsewhere as a correspondent before being tapped to anchor NPR\u2019s flagship news program. Shapiro was the featured speaker at the sold-out 2016 Dinner in the Library event presented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ucsd.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC San Diego Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/Behind-the-News-of-the-Moment-with-Ari-Shapiro-NPR-Dinner-in-the-Library-2016-31184\">Behind the News of the Moment with Ari Shapiro, NPR &#8212; Dinner in the Library 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ari Shapiro, co-host of NPR\u2019 All Things Considered, charmed a book-loving audience at UC San Diego with tales of how his English classes at Yale set him up for a fascinating career of storytelling in journalism. He recounts his early days as an intern at NPR and traces the steps that took him from Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}