{"id":1178,"date":"2011-06-01T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2011-06-01T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T16:33:36","slug":"out-of-the-classroom-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/06\/01\/out-of-the-classroom-into-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the classroom, into the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What did you do the summer just before or after your graduation from college (or high school)?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1179\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/06\/Northern-Forest-Canoe-Trail-Sections.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1179\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1179\" title=\"Northern-Forest-Canoe-Trail-Sections\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/06\/Northern-Forest-Canoe-Trail-Sections-300x235.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/06\/Northern-Forest-Canoe-Trail-Sections-300x235.gif 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/06\/Northern-Forest-Canoe-Trail-Sections.gif 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern Forest Canoe Trail route.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four St. Lawrence University students&#8211;two May graduates and two who will return as seniors in the fall&#8211;have embarked on an adventure that only a handful of people have successfully completed: a non-stop canoe trip from Old Forge, New York to Fort Kent, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Billy McNamara, who is apprenticing at our farm this month, is a good friend of the four and is serving as their &#8220;base camp go-to&#8221; guy. When they can&#8217;t update the <a href=\"http:\/\/canoegypsies.wordpress.com\/ \">blog<\/a> themselves, Billy makes an entry. So, I&#8217;m enjoying the trip vicariously.<\/p>\n<p>In the year after I graduated from college, I bought a one way ticket to London, grabbed my fiddle and $200 and headed across the puddle to hitchhike around Europe for a year. What did you do? Or, if you&#8217;ve just graduated, what are you up to this summer? I hope there&#8217;s still room for adventure and exploration in young peoples&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did you do the summer just before or after your graduation from college (or [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}