{"id":3620,"date":"2011-01-21T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2011-01-24T18:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:21:21","slug":"north-country-loses-another-grocery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/21\/north-country-loses-another-grocery\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country loses another grocery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grocery stores are one of the indicators of a healthy small town.\u00a0 It&#8217;s such an important indicator, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/15252\/20100219\/poverty-linked-to-north-country-s-unhealthy-ranking\">health officials actually track<\/a> which communities don&#8217;t have access to affordable, nutritious food.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s always tough news when we hear that another grocery has shut down &#8212; the latest in Crown Point in the Champlain Valley.\u00a0 This from <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/breaking2\/x71342977\/Crown-Point-Discount-Grocery-closes\">Lohr McKinstry at the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This community\u2019s only full-service grocery store is falling victim to the closing of the Champlain Bridge.\u00a0 John and Marion Sullivan of Vergennes, Vt., have operated Crown Point Discount Grocery for the last eight years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This closure isn&#8217;t as hard-hitting as some.\u00a0 Ticonderoga, roughly ten miles away, has a full-service Wal-Mart.\u00a0 But for low-income families, and people without dependable cars, that can be a haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grocery stores are one of the indicators of a healthy small town.\u00a0 It&#8217;s such an [&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":[4818,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620"}],"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=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}