{"id":90237,"date":"2017-02-18T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T23:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90237"},"modified":"2017-02-18T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T23:25:38","slug":"chris-thile-to-return-for-2nd-season-hosting-prairie-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/18\/chris-thile-to-return-for-2nd-season-hosting-prairie-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Thile to return for 2nd season hosting &#8216;Prairie Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90238\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1170719_661795960499164_1126923064_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90238\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1170719_661795960499164_1126923064_n.jpg\" alt=\"Mandolinist Chris Thile (THEE'-lee) says he is returning for a second season as host of \u201cA Prairie Home Companion.\u201d (Photo: Chris Thile\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1170719_661795960499164_1126923064_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1170719_661795960499164_1126923064_n-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1170719_661795960499164_1126923064_n-768x562.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandolinist Chris Thile (THEE&#8217;-lee) says he is returning for a second season as host of \u201cA Prairie Home Companion.\u201d (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChrisThile\/\">Chris Thile\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>St. PAUL, Minn. \u2013Mandolinist Chris Thile (THEE&#8217;-lee) says he is returning for a second season as host of \u201cA Prairie Home Companion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thile made his announcement during Saturday night&#8217;s show at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. The new season starts Oct. 7 and will run for at 26 shows \u2013double the 13 shows initially scheduled during Thile&#8217;s first season as host.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was supposed to be the season finale of \u201cPrairie Home,\u201d but two new shows have been added for May 13 and 20 at the Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>Creator and longtime \u201cPrairie Home\u201d host Garrison Keillor picked Thile to succeed him as host of the popular public radio variety show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrairie Home\u201d is carried by 580 public radio stations in the U.S. with an estimated weekly audience of 2.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. PAUL, Minn. \u2013Mandolinist Chris Thile (THEE&#8217;-lee) says he is returning for a second season as host of \u201cA Prairie &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[15442,15441,5461],"class_list":["post-90237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-a-prairie-home-companion","tag-chris-thile","tag-host","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}