{"id":2217,"date":"2018-07-12T08:36:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:36:39","slug":"earthly-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/2018\/07\/12\/earthly-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthly Powers&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We narrators work in a vacuum. We don&#8217;t see our audience so there&#8217;s no instant reaction of course. That&#8217;s why feedback is so important. I publish the following message I received NOT to boast but to remind myself why we do this wonderful job. Thanks to Suzanne for letting me post it here:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">Hello, Mr. Griffin<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">In the fervent hopes that you are, indeed, the right Gordon Griffin (how could you not be?), I wanted to extend my embarrassingly frothing praise for your Audible rendition of my favorite book of all time, Anthony Burgess\u2019s \u201cEarthly Powers,\u201d which I have read at least 15<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0times over the course of my lifetime. After my initial shock and attendant delight that the book was even available as an audiobook (the book is hard to find in the USA), I could only hope that the narration wouldn\u2019t tarnish or diminish it, as narration so often does. You actually did the unimaginable\u2014took the story to the next level. Hilarious, perfect, accurate, brilliant; you brought everybody to life, and evoked all the magic of my first reading of the book, back in the late \u201880s, when I discovered it in a used bookstore in Malaysia over the course of a gritty world trip.\u2026 I cannot thank you enough. I\u2019m on my fourth \u201clisten\u201d now (I take a half-year\u2019s break between EP binges); the only problem is the looks I get from passers-by as I sob and laugh like a lunatic, plugged into my silly headphones.<br class=\"\" \/>Thanks again!<br class=\"\" \/>Suzanne<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We narrators work in a vacuum. We don&#8217;t see our audience so there&#8217;s no instant reaction of course. That&#8217;s why feedback is so important. I publish the following message I received NOT to boast but to remind myself why we do this wonderful job. Thanks to Suzanne for letting me post it here: Hello, Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}