{"id":3759,"date":"2011-02-14T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T23:51:08","slug":"a-great-winter-carnival-a-brilliant-place-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/14\/a-great-winter-carnival-a-brilliant-place-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"A great Winter Carnival, a brilliant place to live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3760\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/14\/a-great-winter-carnival-a-brilliant-place-to-live\/sir-brian\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3760\" title=\"sir brian\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/02\/sir-brian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/02\/sir-brian.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/02\/sir-brian-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/02\/sir-brian-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>I blogged earlier today about the center of gravity in American society shifting away from rural, northern places like ours.<\/p>\n<p>That was sort of the wonky, intellectual take on things.\u00a0 The more gut-level aspect of seeing our nation transform into a sun-centered culture is that we hold-outs realize just how much they&#8217;re missing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking, of course, about Saranac Lake&#8217;s just-finished Winter Carnival, which was the best and most memorable of my thirteen years here.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just a way of enduring winter.\u00a0 It is a celebration of it, a delight of ice and frost and companionship and music.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t hurt that we had brilliant weather this year, with the slush and rain holding off until the day after Carnival wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p>It also didn&#8217;t hurt that we had a great theme &#8212; Medieval Madness &#8212; which meant knights on horseback riding in the parade and some of the coolest costumes ever.<\/p>\n<p>Every so often as we watch the rest of America drifting off toward their beaches and their 120-degree summers, it feels good to be able to point to our traditions and say, On a lot of days, it really is better here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged earlier today about the center of gravity in American society shifting away from [&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":[22,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759"}],"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=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}