{"id":1535,"date":"2010-01-25T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/25\/getting-excited-about-vancouver\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:39:00","slug":"getting-excited-about-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/25\/getting-excited-about-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting excited about Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/inukshuk-799747.gif\"><img style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 69px;height: 85px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/inukshuk-799732.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;ve been looking at old Olympic highlight reels from Nagano, Salt Lake City and Torino.  <\/p>\n<p>Pretty awesome.  A lot of familiar faces from the North Country will be back this winter, but I found myself shedding backyard fever.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t matter where the athletes hailed from.<\/p>\n<p>It was the awesome power of the jumps, the raw power of the mogul skiers, the incredible risk-taking that made me catch my breath, even on old, grainy VCR recordings.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a world where the media culture is largely summer-oriented.  <\/p>\n<p>This is a time when snow and ice are celebrated as more than the stuff you scrape off your car.<\/p>\n<p>A time when California and Florida are nudged aside briefly by the North Latitudes.<\/p>\n<p>NCPR&#8217;s coverage will kick off in a big way next week with a five-day series of pre-Vancouver specials.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also have celebrated sports photographer Nancie Battaglia reporting for us on the ground there.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll be checking in with other journalists including Peter Crowley from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be fun and exciting &#8212; global as well as down-home.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also be blogging regularly about the competition here on the In Box, so be ready to join in with your handicapping and your reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at old Olympic highlight reels from Nagano, Salt Lake City and Torino. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535"}],"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=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}