{"id":2099,"date":"2010-05-14T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2010-05-14T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T11:40:17","slug":"50-incredibly-hopeful-cool-things-about-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/14\/50-incredibly-hopeful-cool-things-about-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"50 incredibly hopeful, cool things about the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days there&#8217;s a lot of ugliness going around, what with the national economy still sputtering, Albany in chaos, and (yes, this makes my list) snow flurries and chill winds persisting into May.<\/p>\n<p>So this thread is a challenge to In Box readers:<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the day, I&#8217;m hoping to gather fifty different comments &#8212; hopefully from different commenters &#8212; highlighting incredibly cool, positive, hopeful things about the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t have to be huge.\u00a0 Digging in your asparagus bed?\u00a0 Your kid&#8217;s report card? Your first paddle of the season?\u00a0 A new job?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s the opening of a new store on your local Main Street, or a trash clean-up day.\u00a0 Anything goes.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll be honest:\u00a0 This won&#8217;t be easy.<\/p>\n<p>Usually it&#8217;s the negative posts that attract a lot of attention and comment.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s dig deep.\u00a0 Find something to celebrate and share it.\u00a0\u00a0 Who&#8217;s first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days there&#8217;s a lot of ugliness going around, what with the national economy still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"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=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}