  {"id":6371,"date":"2021-07-05T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/uncategorized\/caption-this-spring-winners\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:21:22","slug":"caption-this-spring-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/summer-2021\/caption-this-spring-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Captions: Spring 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This photo from the º¬Ðß²Ý´«Ã½ Library Archives is dated February 27, 1952. The straightforward description is, \u201cA picture of studio director Pauline Bregnan and William J. Toohey \u201955 in the º¬Ðß²Ý´«Ã½ Radio Station room.\u201d Your caption ideas and responses, º¬Ðß²Ý´«Ã½ Magazine readers, were anything but straightforward. In fact, they were quite creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Winning Captions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-half_column\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/03\/Spring-2021-Photo-Caption-Contest-500x613.jpg\" alt=\"Two students look at an LP record\" class=\"wp-image-5984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/03\/Spring-2021-Photo-Caption-Contest-500x613.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/03\/Spring-2021-Photo-Caption-Contest-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/03\/Spring-2021-Photo-Caption-Contest-836x1024.jpg 836w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/03\/Spring-2021-Photo-Caption-Contest-768x941.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/03\/Spring-2021-Photo-Caption-Contest-364x446.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/03\/Spring-2021-Photo-Caption-Contest.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cThe Beatles? They\u2019re no Kingston Trio. One-hit wonder for sure.\u201d<br><em>\u2014Richard McCahey \u201969<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cIt\u2019s called Rock &amp; Roll. It\u2019s a fad that will never last.\u201d<br><em>\u2014Michael Kenny \u201981<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Runner-Up<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cSo Larry says if you play this one backwards you\u2019ll hear the name of every Dorr Hall resident&#8230;ever.\u201d<br><em>\u2014Timothy Anderson \u201997<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Notable Submissions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Reader Janis Murray (wife of David Murray \u201975) was inspired by this photo, along with the poetry story in the spring 2021 issue, to share a submission in verse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am curious about you.<br>Your smile captures my mind.<br>I study vinyl for my own interest,<br>Your attention surprising,<br>Divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold me closely<br>Let your fingers explore<br>my back.<br>If not, we may miss<br>this potential match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let that smile<br>Kiss me<br>And we may see,<br>independently,<br>The vibe,<br>The music,<br>We want.\u201d<br>_________<br><strong>From º¬Ðß²Ý´«Ã½\u2019s first lady<\/strong>, the Rev. Lynn Baker-Dooley:<br>I love this photo as proof that women were involved at our radio station in 1952, but I have to say, without that knowledge, this photo reeks of mansplaining. So the caption might read:<em><br><\/em><br>\u201cLet me explain how this round thing works, honey.\u201d<br>_________<br><strong>WRIU DJ John Austin Murphy<\/strong>, aka The Monsignor, submitted this caption:<em><br><\/em><br>\u201cThis record is perfect for your show on WRIU!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to The Monsignor\u2019s show, Roots &amp; Offshoots on WRIU (90.3 FM or streaming live at wriu.org), Friday mornings from 6\u20138.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of the spring 2021 caption contest along with some of our noteworthy submissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-2021","architecture-caption-this"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6705,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}