1. https:\/\/storycorps.org\/stories\/patrick-haggerty\/
\tPersonally I really liked this story. It hit home for me and I love hearing the stories of queer people in rural communities, especially in a time when being queer was so stigmatized. As far as sound quality goes, it seemed a little tinny and\/or muffled to me. My guess is that it\u2019s the mic quality. The pacing was good! The story moves at a nice and brisk pace \u2013 not too quick, but not too slow. For scope, I really like how the story showed the parallel of Patrick being ashamed of his father for being a farmer, which in reality is not that big of a deal, while Patrick\u2019s father wasn\u2019t ashamed of Patrick for being gay, which was a really big deal in the 1950\u2019s. I think it teaches a good lesson about love and judgement. I also liked the music at the end. I assume it\u2019s a song from Patrick\u2019s and, which fits perfectly. If it is Patrick\u2019s band\u2019s music, I actually think it should be a little longer so we can better experience his music.
2. https:\/\/storycorps.org\/stories\/fear-wasnt-a-word-his-father-knew-the-origins-of-a-civil-rights-leader\/
\tI really appreciated hearing this story. As someone who works with words, I really appreciate the sentiment of \u201csay what you mean and mean what you say.\u201d As far as sound quality goes, Rev. Blake\u2019s S\u2019s seem a little lisp-y. My guess is either that\u2019s just the way he speaks or it was an issue with the mic he was given. The pacing was good; Rev. Blake speaks a little slow, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that detrimental to the story. It just gives the story a different tone, which is appropriate since the story is more solemn than the previous story. I think that if I had edited the story, I wouldn\u2019t have had the music at the end go on for 27 seconds. I would have probably cut it off at 10-ish seconds. I think having long outro music keeps the listener hanging for too long, but I also don\u2019t think it\u2019s the worst thing known to the world of audio editing. For scope, I really liked that they included an intro for this story. It gave enough information so the listener wasn\u2019t lost at the beginning of Rev. Blake\u2019s story, but not so much detail that the message of the story was spoiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. https:\/\/storycorps.org\/stories\/patrick-haggerty\/ Personally I really liked this story. It hit home for me and I love hearing the stories of queer people in rural communities, especially in a time when being queer was so stigmatized. As far as sound quality goes, it seemed a little tinny and\/or muffled to me. My guess is that it\u2019s… Continue reading StoryCorps stories \u2013 Patrick Haggerty, Rev. Harry Blake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}