{"id":1630,"date":"2011-10-20T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2011-10-20T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:56:29","slug":"listening-post-ncpr-is-cheaper-than-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/10\/20\/listening-post-ncpr-is-cheaper-than-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: NCPR is cheaper than dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always looking for the value proposition, that is, I&#8217;m kind of a tightwad. I want bang for the buck, return on investment, a big upside, a deep discount. And yet every year, I reach into my wallet to support North Country Public Radio, just as I did for many years before I came to work here. So what&#8217;s up with that? I could get it for free.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1631\" title=\"ncprsoil\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/10\/ncprsoil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"271\" \/>Except that I couldn&#8217;t. No donations, no NCPR, pretty simple. But NCPR can be had for cheap. The average gift to NCPR is $80 a year. My calculator tells me that this comes out to $6.67 a month. Not a bad value proposition&#8211;cheap, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>Even cheaper than dirt. To test this, I went to a gardening supply website to get a price on dirt. A 1.5 cubic foot bag of Organic Choice Garden Soil retails at&#8211;drumroll please&#8211;$6.97. So there you have it. On average, NCPR is $.30 cheaper than dirt.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, we are about $130,000 from our goal. At $80 a head, that means we need to hear from 1,625 more people before Saturday at 8 pm. That&#8217;s a lot of calls and clicks. But if you<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.publicbroadcasting.net\/ncpr\/default\/form.pledgemain\">make a gift to NCPR right now<\/a><\/strong>, you can let us worry about delivering the rest of the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always looking for the value proposition, that is, I&#8217;m kind of a tightwad. I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}