{"id":1528,"date":"2010-01-22T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/22\/my-checklist-the-backcountry-neighbors-a-bottle-of-wine\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:21:00","slug":"my-checklist-the-backcountry-neighbors-a-bottle-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/22\/my-checklist-the-backcountry-neighbors-a-bottle-of-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"My checklist? The backcountry. Neighbors. A bottle of wine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a stellar couple of days in the Adirondacks.  All the dire news out of Albany has been leavened by sun, snow and solitude.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, we skied the great, twisting loop around John Brown&#8217;s farm, with Sara the dog pounding through deep powder.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we climbed back in to Avalanche Lake, eating pastrami sandwiches under the big cliffs and watching chickadees snoop around for leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>Snow conditions?  Impeccable.  Sun?  Check.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying the outdoors is an easy antidote to all that ails us.  If you can&#8217;t pay the mortgage, it&#8217;s hard to enjoy a day on snowshoes.<\/p>\n<p>But it is important to remind ourselves why we make the North Country home.<\/p>\n<p>Cool neighbors, quiet, brittle-cold air, and the hiss of snow under your skies.  That&#8217;s my checklist.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s on your list?  What makes this place worth the struggle?  Comments welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a stellar couple of days in the Adirondacks. All the dire news out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}