{"id":824,"date":"2018-07-26T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=824"},"modified":"2018-08-03T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:06:52","slug":"joan-ganz-cooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/joan-ganz-cooney","title":{"rendered":"Joan Ganz Cooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/JoanGanzCooney.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:8px;\" alt=\"Joan Ganz Cooney\" \/>Since the 1970s, The Children\u2019s Television Workshop\u2014now called the Sesame Workshop\u2014intended to help low-income children become better prepared for school by using television as a tool. The Sesame Workshop&#8217;s shows\u2014including <em>Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact<\/em>\u2014ended up being much more far reaching, teaching and entertaining children from all backgrounds, internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Harris speaks with television producer Joan Ganz Cooney about the early days of educational programming, and how she helped to revolutionize children\u2019s television, from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/JoanGanzCooney-FromScratch-072618.mp3\" class=\"wpaudio\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 1970s, The Children\u2019s Television Workshop\u2014now called the Sesame Workshop\u2014intended to help low-income children become better prepared for school by using television as a tool. The Sesame Workshop&#8217;s shows\u2014including Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact\u2014ended up being much more far reaching, teaching and entertaining children from all backgrounds, internationally. Jessica Harris speaks with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}