{"id":3442,"date":"2013-04-13T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2013-04-13T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T12:08:21","slug":"were-in-for-the-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/04\/13\/were-in-for-the-long-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re in for the long haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/images\/bellingerpotd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Bellinger apple tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/images\/bellingerpotd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>When you connect with NCPR, you connect with an organization rooted in the region. We grow because the people who live here, in this geographic place, nurture NCPR.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a message we just received from Pete and Andrea Bellinger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve given during this fundraiser, but I wanted to tell this story that I think about every fundraiser. \u00a0When my first son was born, we moved from Watertown (and the Oswego NPR station) to Ogdensburg. \u00a0I mean I was wheeled out of the hospital with a baby in my arms after a Cesarean and arrived at a 3 room apartment in Ogdensburg, NY. \u00a0 This was the era of a load of manure, eggs and massages in fundraising premiums with the hope of $10,000 totals. \u00a0 It was October 1983 and as I listened to the radio I became a NCPR convert.<\/p>\n<p>The next year we had moved into an 11 room house and one of the premiums were two apple trees. \u00a0Now it is 2013 and I can&#8217;t total the number of quarts of applesauce and apple chutney (courtesy of the NCPR cookbook) have been produced from the premier apple tree. \u00a0So thanks guys.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Pete and Andrea&#8211;family supporters and business supporters (Maple City Insurance) for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, we&#8217;re in for the long haul&#8230;as long as you&#8217;re along for the ride, too.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you connect with NCPR, you connect with an organization rooted in the region. We [&#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\/3442"}],"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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}