{"id":783,"date":"2010-12-22T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T18:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=783"},"modified":"2010-12-22T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T18:39:07","slug":"this-is-how-it-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/12\/22\/this-is-how-it-should-be\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how it should be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me old fashioned. Call me (seasonally) nostalgic. At the Blue Mountain Lake Volunteer Fire Department last Sunday, a Christmas scene that felt like Christmas. Local families. Lots of kids. Everyone knows each other. Everyone cares about coming together as a community. And Santa lives down the road.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_787\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010A.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-787\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-787 \" title=\"xmas2010A\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010A.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010A-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa gets ready to give each child a gift--and each is called by name.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_789\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010-10Bjpg.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-789\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-789 \" title=\"xmas2010 10Bjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010-10Bjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010-10Bjpg.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/12\/xmas2010-10Bjpg-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Blue Mtn Lake fire hall, Billy Gray has his first high-powered meeting with Santa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, you can see this is all very down-home. A gift to the hamlet from the volunteer fire department. What&#8217;s happening in your town for the holidays? Post pictures with your comments below, or just tell us what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Happy everything, peace on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me old fashioned. Call me (seasonally) nostalgic. At the Blue Mountain Lake Volunteer Fire [&#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":[1006],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}