{"id":1957,"date":"2009-02-12T13:19:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T21:19:55","slug":"could-it-be-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/could-it-be-cbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Could it be, CBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>could it be that I actually like the flow of music on CBC Radio Two? &#8230;hmmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Last year when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/\">Radio Two<\/a> changed its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/thenew2\/\">format<\/a>, it was met with stinging criticism as it cut back it&#8217;s classical music offerings and diversified the genres it plays.<\/p>\n<p>But last week I was hanging out in Toronto at my brother&#8217;s house and he put on Radio Two in the morning and we left it on all day.  I was struck by how well the mix of programming seemed to go with my mood.  Most of the day is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/tempo\/\">classical music<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/r2drive\/\">afternoon drive show<\/a> is all kinds of songs by bands I have never heard from, and in the evening we get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/programs\/TONIC.html\">jazz<\/a>, a concert recording (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/cod\/\">which lives online afterwards<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/thesignal\/\">The Signal<\/a>, which is the closest thing &#8211; though not close enough yet &#8211; to the BBC&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio3\/latejunction\/\">Late Junction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to give CBC Radio Two a chance and see where it takes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>could it be that I actually like the flow of music on CBC Radio Two? &#8230;hmmmm&#8230;. Last year when Radio Two changed its format, it was met with stinging criticism as it cut back it&#8217;s classical music offerings and diversified the genres it plays. But last week I was hanging out in Toronto at my brother&#8217;s house and he put on Radio Two in the morning and we left it on all day. I was struck by how well the mix of programming seemed to go with my mood. Most of the day is still classical music, the afternoon drive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-vz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}