{"id":7330,"date":"2010-07-15T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2010-06-16T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:14:40","slug":"books-on-cd-npr-funniest-driveway-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/books-on-cd-npr-funniest-driveway-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on CD – NPR Funniest Driveway Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My favorite audiobook is NPR Funniest Driveway Moments<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em> The premise, of course, is that you’ll be sitting in your driveway in order to finish listening to the story. I don’t know about that but I did sit at a red light on 4th Street laughing helplessly while Scott Simon interviewed the outrageous\u00a0Dame Edna (aka Barry Humphries).<\/p>\n

As far as I’m concerned, you can’t ask more than that of an audiobook. Goodbye road-rage, goodbye work stress. By the time you get home, you’re relaxed and serene.<\/p>\n

All the NPR compilations are\u00a0reliably good\u00a0listening due to the fact that they are scripted and edited \u00a0by consummate professionals. If you are a fan at all of public radio, you’ll appreciate the skilled interviewing and marvelous voices\u00a0of\u00a0 Susan Stamberg, Robert Siegel, Renee Montagne and, of course, the great Scott Simon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favorite audiobook is NPR Funniest Driveway Moments. The premise, of course, is that you’ll be sitting in your driveway in order to finish listening to the story. I don’t know about that but I did sit at a red light on 4th Street laughing helplessly while Scott Simon interviewed[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,8],"tags":[165,1254,622,619,1253],"class_list":["post-7330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-staff-picks","tag-humor","tag-laughter","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-radio-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1Ue","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7342,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions\/7342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}