{"id":2655,"date":"2012-09-29T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2012-09-29T19:16:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T23:16:12","slug":"heading-south-for-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/09\/29\/heading-south-for-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading south for the winter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2656\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/09\/29\/heading-south-for-the-winter\/crpic1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2656\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2656\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2656\" title=\"Costa Rica\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/09\/crpic1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/09\/crpic1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/09\/crpic1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of beach near Tortuguero, Costa Rica.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When my parents first began spending winters in Florida, my mom admitted that the topic of conversation at a dinner with friends was, \u201cDo you think our kids wonder what we do here all day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m asking: If you\u2019re a retired North Country resident who travels south for the winter, or to another part of the world, have you found a second career? What keeps you busy? Do you volunteer for a local arts or environmental organization? Whatever the attraction &#8212; the crack of a bat at Spring Training, cleaning up a stretch of beach, or the chance to work alongside Mickey Mouse &#8212; I want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>I know there are lots of semi-retired and retired folks from the region who enjoy staying active during snowbird season. Tell me your story: <a href=\"mailto:todd@ncpr.org\">todd@ncpr.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my parents first began spending winters in Florida, my mom admitted that the topic [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8497,8496,8494,193,8495,8493,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}