{"id":4090,"date":"2011-04-18T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2011-04-19T06:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:48:41","slug":"tomorrow-is-shortsleeves-independence-day-send-us-your-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/18\/tomorrow-is-shortsleeves-independence-day-send-us-your-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY is Shortsleeves Independence Day (Send us your photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the In Box&#8217;s first effort at activism, a trial run at hoisting the banner of protest.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I am officially declaring as Shortsleeves Independence Day across the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much snow falls, or how hard the wind blows, or how much ice is caked on my car window, I will wear shortsleeves\u00a0 tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I challenge all of you proud In Boxers to join me.<\/p>\n<p>Lay bare those pasty-white guns!\u00a0 Show off your halibut-colored forearms!\u00a0 Throw off the sleet and shivers of March with a display of April casual wear!<\/p>\n<p>Spring is here, dammit!\u00a0 Together we will cast our sweaters and our flannels and our layers of fleece into the darkness (of the storage closet,\u00a0 that is).<\/p>\n<p>We will show the sun that we, no less than the crocuses buried in the yard, demand a little love and respect.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to show a little skin, folks.\u00a0 If you are brave enough to join me in seasonal solidarity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/features\/todaysphoto\/photocontest.html\">snap a picture and sent it to NCPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We plan a centerfold edition of the In Box with particularly sexy arms, bared and bold for spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the In Box&#8217;s first effort at activism, a trial run at hoisting the [&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":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090"}],"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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}