{"id":20137,"date":"2013-02-04T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=20137"},"modified":"2015-07-01T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T02:55:01","slug":"peter-sagal-on-satire-and-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2013\/02\/04\/peter-sagal-on-satire-and-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sagal on Satire &#038; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The host of NPR&#8217;s Wait Wait&#8230;Don&#8217;t Tell Me! previews his upcoming lecture at KU<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Peter-Sagal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20141\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Peter-Sagal-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Peter-Sagal\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/petersagal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Sagal<\/a>, the host of NPR&#8217;s news quiz show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wait Wait&#8230;Don&#8217;t Tell Me!<\/a> talked with Ad Astra reporter Claire McInerny about his upcoming visit to KU. Sagal is speaking as part of SUA&#8217;s Student Lecture Series on Feb. 18th. The title of his speech is <em>Current Events: Why Satire is the Only Reasonable Response to the Times We Live In,\u00a0<\/em>and in the interview below Sagal talks about how he uses satire to find the truth in current events.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the lecture and how to get tickets, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/suaevents.com\/event\/student-lecture-series-peter-sagal\/\" target=\"_blank\">SUA&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20137-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Peter-Sagal_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Peter-Sagal_mixdown.mp3\">http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Peter-Sagal_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The host of NPR&#8217;s Wait Wait&#8230;Don&#8217;t Tell Me! previews his upcoming lecture at KU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4332,"featured_media":20141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3225],"tags":[614,1701,1697,1700,1699,334,1698],"class_list":["post-20137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-events","tag-claire-mcinerny","tag-current-events-why-satire-is-the-only-reasonable-response-to-the-times-we-live-in","tag-peter-sagal","tag-satire","tag-student-lecture-series","tag-sua","tag-wait-wait-dont-tell-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Peter-Sagal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}