{"id":861,"date":"2011-02-09T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=861"},"modified":"2011-02-09T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:19:56","slug":"free-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/02\/09\/free-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Free food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were listening this morning to <em>The 8 o&#8217;clock Hour<\/em>, you heard Todd&#8217;s conversation with Janet Poppendieck, author of <em>Free for All: Fixing School Food in America<\/em>. (You can hear that conversation at our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpr.org\/news\"> news<\/a> page.) Poppendieck will be giving a talk at the Kingston Middle School Cafeteria in Potsdam on Thursday, February 10 at 7 pm. This is a free, public event organized by GardenShare (www.gardenshare.org). NCPR is media sponsor for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about a timely topic. I had just finished listening to Poppendieck as I opened the <em>NY Times<\/em> and saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/09\/education\/09lunches.html?_r=1&amp;nl=nyregion&amp;emc=ura1\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poppendieck presents an interesting economic&#8211;as well as healthy living&#8211;perspective on school meals. She argues, among other things, that universal free meals (breakfast and\/or lunch) makes sense financially, given the dysfunction of our current school lunch bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? I&#8217;m curious about the range of opinion in our community. Seems to me that childhood nutrition is an often overlooked&#8211;though absolutely key&#8211;element of our contemporary interest in wholesome, local food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were listening this morning to The 8 o&#8217;clock Hour, you heard Todd&#8217;s conversation [&#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":[36,5418,5417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}