{"id":1540,"date":"2008-04-09T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/new-friends-on\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:43:05","slug":"new-friends-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/new-friends-on\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW FRIENDS ON MY OLD TURF: MOMMY BLOGGERS VISIT KATIE AT CBS NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/04\/09\/katie_shakes_hands.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"144\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/dontgeltoosoon\/images\/2008\/04\/09\/katie_shakes_hands.jpg?resize=200%2C144\" title=\"Katie_shakes_hands\" alt=\"Katie_shakes_hands\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat are the odds?&nbsp; I spent what would have been my prime mommy-blogging years, before the Interweb was anyone&#8217;s darling, working at CBS News at 524 West 57th St.&nbsp; Now, some of my sweet, funny mommy blogging friends went through the same door I used every day for 7 years to meet with Katie Couric.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s what happened:<br \/>\n<object width=\"340\" height=\"284\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yEXOLbNhiQc&amp;hl=en\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, huh?&nbsp; My 9 years at <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032633\">TODAY <\/a>never crossed with Katie and clearly my CBS years were the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/dontgelyet.typepad.com\/dontgeltoosoon\/2008\/03\/pa-hrefhttpdont.html\">Place to Be<\/a>&quot; years, well before hers but it sure was fun to see the girlfriends sashay on in and charm her to pieces.&nbsp; But then, that&#8217;s what they do.\n<\/p>\n<p>Blogger roll call for The Visit &#8211; drawn from original host <a href=\"http:\/\/svmomblog.typepad.com\/nyc_moms\/2008\/04\/draft---posts-m.html\">SV(Silicon Valley) Mom<\/a>s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Meet The Parents (Who Blog)<\/strong>:&nbsp; Katie Couric from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/07\/couricandco\/entry3999468.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&amp;source=RSS&amp;attr=Couric&amp;Co._3999468\">CBS News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>If You Knew Katie, Like I know Katie<\/strong>:&nbsp; Kelcey from <a href=\"http:\/\/svmomblog.typepad.com\/nyc_moms\/2008\/04\/if-you-knew-kat.html\">New York City Moms Blog<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong>K-K-K-K-Katie<\/strong>: Holli from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baby-faith.com\/?p=907#comments\">Baby Faith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Katie Couric Knows Yiddish<\/strong>:&nbsp; Nancy from <a href=\"http:\/\/svmomblog.typepad.com\/nyc_moms\/2008\/04\/katie-couric-kn.html\">New York City Moms Blog<\/a>&nbsp;  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Girl Crush<\/strong>: Kelcey from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamabirddiaries.com\/\">The Mama Bird Diaries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>You Had Me At Katie Couric<\/strong>: Beth from R<a href=\"http:\/\/rolemommyconfessions.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/you-had-me-at-katie-couric.html\">ole Mommy Confessions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Meeting Katie Couric<\/strong>: Stacy from <a href=\"http:\/\/laptoptelevision.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2008\/04\/meeting-katie-c.html\">Laptop Television<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>My Afternoon With Katie Couric &#8211; No. Really!<\/strong>:&nbsp; Danielle from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodmomiac.com\/foodmomiac\/2008\/04\/my-afternoon-wi.html\">FoodMomiac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Our Own Little &quot;Digital-Era Sweatshop<\/strong>: Liz from <a href=\"http:\/\/mom-101.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/our-own-little-digital-era-sweatshop.html\">Mom-101<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Meeting Katie Couric<\/strong>: Kimberly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petroville.com\/2008\/04\/06\/meeting-katie-couric\/\">Petroville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Katie Couric:&nbsp; &quot;Mommy Bloggers&quot; Heart You<\/strong>: Joanne from <a href=\"http:\/\/punditmom1.blogspot.com\/\">PunditMom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kudos To Katie<\/strong>:&nbsp; Amanda May from <a href=\"http:\/\/svmomblog.typepad.com\/nyc_moms\/2008\/04\/kudos-to-katie.html\">New York City Moms Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Katie Couric Rocks It With The Mommy Bloggers<\/strong>: Amy from <a href=\"http:\/\/ladybugandbloggingmama.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/katie-couric-rocks-it-with-mommy.html\">The Ladybug And Her Blogging Mama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Once More, Amy Is Famous<\/strong>: Amy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumsthewurd.com\/2008\/04\/once-moreamy-is-famous.html\">Mums The Word<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Devra from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentopia.net\/blog\/\">Parentopia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lisa Stone, <a href=\"http:\/\/surfette.typepad.com\/\">Surfette<\/a> and co-goddess of BlogHer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Original post on <a href=\"http:\/\/svmomblog.typepad.com\/nyc_moms\/2008\/04\/katie-couric-me.html\">New York City Mom<\/a>s Blog about meeting Katie Couric.<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the odds?&nbsp; I spent what would have been my prime mommy-blogging years, before the Interweb was anyone&#8217;s darling, working at CBS News at 524 West 57th St.&nbsp; Now, some of my sweet, funny mommy blogging friends went through the same door I used every day for 7 years to meet with Katie Couric.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/new-friends-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NEW FRIENDS ON MY OLD TURF: MOMMY BLOGGERS VISIT KATIE AT CBS NEWS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,97,52],"tags":[1620,1618,1617,287,415,199,195,55,1619,1521,911,1616,200,1591,262,1615,1621,54,261],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-life","category-television","category-weblogs","tag-cbs-news","tag-first-woman-anchor","tag-foodmomiac","tag-journalism","tag-katie-couric","tag-mom-101","tag-mommy-bloggers","tag-nbc-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-moms","tag-news","tag-parentopia","tag-punditmom","tag-roger-mudd","tag-television-2","tag-television-news","tag-the-place-to-be","tag-today-show","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}