{"id":1567,"date":"2008-08-17T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2008-08-17T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:48:33","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-spontaneous-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/how-to-prepare-for-spontaneous-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Prepare For &#8216;Spontaneous&#8217; Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing up the regular posts I do over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/creative-choices.co.uk\/server.php?show=ConBlog.23\">Creative Choices Blog<\/a>, and my coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/\">Edinburgh Fringe<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been talking there this week about how I prepare for my interviews&#8230; the ones that sound rather scattershot and improvised, but still get to the point in the time needed&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many years ago, while doing some work at a local talk radio station, I was told by the lead presenter one of the lessons that was passed on to him&#8230; &#8220;preparation, dear boy, preparation, that is the key.&#8221; It&#8217;s a rule that I certainly take to heart, and one that might be good for you all to consider as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More over on <a href=\"http:\/\/creative-choices.co.uk\/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.180\">the Creative Thinking blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing up the regular posts I do over at the Creative Choices Blog, and my coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe, I&#8217;ve been talking there this week about how I prepare for my interviews&#8230; the ones that sound rather scattershot and improvised, but still get to the point in the time needed&#8230; Many years ago, while doing some work at a local talk radio station, I was told by the lead presenter one of the lessons that was passed on to him&#8230; &#8220;preparation, dear boy, preparation, that is the key.&#8221; It&#8217;s a rule that I certainly take to heart, and one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[349,267,391,99,390],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-site","category-links-to-my-articles","tag-creative-choices","tag-interview","tag-notes","tag-podcast","tag-preparation","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}