{"id":1369,"date":"2011-07-21T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2011-07-21T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:40:58","slug":"what-floats-your-boat-ices-your-cake-or-gets-you-jazzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/07\/21\/what-floats-your-boat-ices-your-cake-or-gets-you-jazzed\/","title":{"rendered":"What floats your boat, ices your cake, or gets you jazzed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve broadcast or written all kinds of commentaries and feature pieces. Some elicit feedback from listeners or readers; some don&#8217;t. But one, above all others stands out: a commentary I did fifteen years ago about the arrival of Big Red at our farm. Probably dropped off somewhere nearby, Big Red found his way to our farm and immediately buddied up with our other dog at the time, Tiller. To this day, people still ask me if Big Red is alive, or if we have another dog like him. He was the first small dog I ever lived with&#8230;previously, I was a\u00a0 large dog snob. Totally.<\/p>\n<p>So, when<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WwUhs8RJzoM&amp;feature=player_embedded\"> this video <\/a>made it into my email inbox this morning, I was reminded of Big Red and the remarkable response his story brought to the station.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, little dogs get to a lot of people. Thumbs up or down on little dogs? What gets you going? What do you care about, almost in spite of yourself&#8211;or, aside from those big weighty world issues, what is likely to, perhaps surprisingly, draw a deep response? Big Red sure was a surprise for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve broadcast or written all kinds of commentaries and feature pieces. Some [&#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\/1369"}],"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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}