{"id":15618,"date":"2018-01-18T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=15618"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:51:37","slug":"joe-frank-boundary-pushing-storyteller-whose-medium-was-radio-dies-at-79-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/01\/18\/joe-frank-boundary-pushing-storyteller-whose-medium-was-radio-dies-at-79-the-washington-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Joe Frank, boundary-pushing storyteller whose medium was radio, dies at 79 &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_15619\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15619\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2018\/01\/Joe_Frank6MichalStoryAll_Rights_Reserved31-300x258-1.jpg?resize=300%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Joe Frank, photo by Michal Story\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Frank, photo by Michal Story<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Frank hauled a bathtub into the recording studio, dined on potato chips and dialed a phone-sex line while reclining in the water. He played lecture excerpts by Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, interrupted monologues to pour a cup of tea and experimented with music samples from soul master James Brown and composer Steve Reich. Late one night, he called his former lovers live on the air, encouraging them to join him in the jazz standard \u201cI Remember You.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/joe-frank-boundary-pushing-storyteller-whose-medium-was-radio-dies-at-79\/2018\/01\/17\/d5238ebc-fb9a-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.e0f7739dfb07\">Joe Frank, boundary-pushing storyteller whose medium was radio, dies at 79 &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Frank hauled a bathtub into the recording studio, dined on potato chips and dialed a phone-sex line while reclining in the water. He played lecture excerpts by Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, interrupted monologues to pour a cup of tea and experimented with music samples from soul master James Brown and composer Steve Reich. Late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Frank6MichalStoryAll_Rights_Reserved31-300x258-1-5.jpg?fit=300%2C258&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-43U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}