{"id":4395,"date":"2020-06-08T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2020-07-22T21:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T01:43:25","slug":"best-news-i-heard-all-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4395","title":{"rendered":"Best News I Heard All Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t sleep last night. It was 3 AM. After some tossing and turning I decided to get up and maybe read a book. Putting on my bathrobe, I relocated to an overstuffed chair in the darkened sun-room.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moonlight streamed in the windows creating patches of light and shadow on the carpet. My cats meandered about, no doubt wondering why I was up so late. I knew why. Worries about the pandemic, racial injustice, and the killing of George Floyd bubbled up out of my subconscious leaving me completely wide awake.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moonlight and shadows were too pretty to disturb, so I didn’t turn on the reading light. Instead, I switched on an old-fashioned AM radio we bought at a tag sale. It crackled to life immediately bringing back childhood memories of listening to faraway AM radio stations in the wee hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At first, I tuned in a talk radio program from somewhere out in this big, dark, sleeping nation. The caller and host were having a passionate discussion. I never determined the subject because the station kept fading in and out. Sometimes, the signal was loud and clear, other times it was completely lost in static. Maybe a thunderstorm or other atmospheric condition let me hear the call-in show, even for just a few moments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, I settled on a stronger signal. Through the quiet ether, across 250 miles of slumbering New England, a station from Montreal was coming in loud and clear. From the proper nouns and geographical names I deduced it was a news report. But because it was in French, and I don’t speak French, I couldn’t understand just what that news report was all about. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was the best news report I head all week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright 2020 Christopher Donahue<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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