{"id":8639,"date":"2014-02-03T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T19:21:43","slug":"wanakena-bridge-in-a-communitys-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/02\/03\/wanakena-bridge-in-a-communitys-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanakena bridge: in a community&#8217;s heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8643\" style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/02\/wanakena1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8643\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8643    \" alt=\"Photo: Zach Hirsch\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/02\/wanakena1.jpg\" width=\"293\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/02\/wanakena1.jpg 460w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/02\/wanakena1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Zach Hirsch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few weeks ago, reporter Zach Hirsch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/23780\/20140116\/iconic-footbridge-needs-quot-complete-rebuild-quot\">reported on<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/23794\/wanakena-residents-lose-a-treasure-for-now\">visited Wanakena and talked <\/a>to people about the impact of the loss of the iconic footbridge, a loss caused by ice and severe winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, Joel Hurd helped produce a portrait of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/10360\/20071127\/very-special-place-wanakena-foot-bridge\">Wanakena bridge for Very Special Places<\/a>, a series we collaborated on with <a href=\"http:\/\/northcountryfolklore.org\/rvsp\/index.php\">TAUNY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, our good friend Kristin Rehder, who has owned a summer home in Wanakena for years, sent me the video below. Her tribute to the bridge as a point of community pride, connection, and beauty. She has graciously allowed me to share it with you below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PsuXR-EvsZU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, reporter Zach Hirsch reported on and then visited Wanakena and talked [&#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":[14002,8472,13068],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639"}],"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=8639"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}