{"id":48,"date":"2026-10-28T13:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:40:03","slug":"the-power-of-stories-serial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/2026\/10\/28\/the-power-of-stories-serial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Stories: Serial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"atwho-inserted\" data-atwho-at-query=\"@ste\"><a class='bp-suggestions-mention' href='https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/community\/peers\/michael\/' rel='nofollow'>@michael<\/a><\/span> referenced S-Town as responsible for the podcast boom. For me, it was Serial a few years prior, also produced by Serial productions. The intro music! The MailChimp ads! The cell phone towers!<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy the SNL parody:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Serial: The Christmas Surprise - SNL\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATXbJjuZqbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@michael referenced S-Town as responsible for the podcast boom. For me, it was Serial a few years prior, also produced by Serial productions. The intro music! The MailChimp ads! The cell phone towers! Please enjoy the SNL parody: &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/readingculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}