{"id":933,"date":"2011-03-21T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=933"},"modified":"2011-03-21T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:05:55","slug":"an-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/03\/21\/an-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"An old friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_934\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/03\/march2011-031.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-934\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-934\" title=\"march2011 031\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/03\/march2011-031-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/03\/march2011-031-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/03\/march2011-031-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/03\/march2011-031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanging in there<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been walking past this old soft maple for decades. It&#8217;s about two miles west of my farm. It continues to survive even as it loses more branches each winter. Very likely, it was planted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civilian_Conservation_Corps\">CCC<\/a>&#8211;the Civilian Conservation Corps&#8211;in the 1930s. The CCC planted fast-growing species, like soft maples, along roadsides throughout the north country. Now, 70-80 years later, many are dying. Seems to me it&#8217;s time to encourage widespread new plantings along our roads.<\/p>\n<p>When I walk past trees like this one&#8211;humble, unassuming, yet essential to our landscape&#8211;I feel connected to that earlier time and imagine the crews of young men working up and down the roads with shovels and sacks of small saplings.<\/p>\n<p>Anything we plant today will connect us to those who will people our landscape a century from now. I think that&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been walking past this old soft maple for decades. It&#8217;s about two miles west [&#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":[5457,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}