{"id":876704,"date":"2026-06-18T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/876704\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:05:33","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-june-18-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/876704\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (June 18, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; historian and author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profblmkelley.com\/bio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blair LM Kelley<\/a> and Prairie View A&amp;M&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pvamu.edu\/blog\/melanyeprice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Melanye Price<\/a> join us to discuss what Juneteenth means to us in the modern day and how the holiday continues to shape conversations about social justice in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we hear from the Texas State Director for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethechildren.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Children<\/a>, Militza Mezquita, who shares advice on how parents can keep their children learning during summer vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Ernie and guest host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chaunguyenhouston\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chau Nguyen<\/a> share the latest things that have been taking over all their free time as part of our regular Thursday feature, Current Obsessions, while also sharing obsessions from Hello Houston listeners. You can send your Current Obsessions to us anytime by emailing us at talk@hellohouston.org.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; historian and author Blair LM Kelley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[356238,59391,40595,407,9973,10098,472,4345,6607,425,356239,356240,5546,356241,24908,358,3187],"class_list":["post-876704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-blair-lm-kelley","tag-chau-nguyen","tag-current-obsessions","tag-education","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-history","tag-houston","tag-juneteenth","tag-local","tag-melanye-price","tag-militza-mezquita","tag-pop-culture","tag-save-the-children","tag-summer-learning","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116773148923325154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}