{"id":4382,"date":"2011-06-20T07:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2011-06-20T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:59:35","slug":"st-lawrence-river-impressions-ncpr-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/20\/st-lawrence-river-impressions-ncpr-is-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lawrence River impressions:  NCPR is everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was paddling a stretch of water on the St. Lawrence River yesterday and had crept into a little cove to record the sound of an osprey crowing from a nest in a big white pine.<\/p>\n<p>Some people were sitting on a deck up on the shore and a man asked me what I was doing.\u00a0 I explained that I&#8217;m a public radio reporter, gathering sound for a story.\u00a0 &#8220;Oh,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;Will this be on Todd Moe&#8217;s show?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which made me feel very much at home.\u00a0 Then, last night, when I arrived at the lovely Wellesley Hotel and began settling into my room, I found framed on the wall a beautiful woodblock print and a poem by NCPR&#8217;s blog-meister Dale Hobson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight the ice is flat and serene, smoothness endless as Siberia,&#8221; Dale wrote.\u00a0 &#8220;Water from half the continent filters unseen between the shoals and the islands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I kept thinking about that idea as I paddled early this morning on the shipping channel.\u00a0 Half a continent &#8212; the vast Great Lakes basin &#8212; all distilled into this one vein.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also fun to be reminded what a remarkable landscape NCPR covers, from the Adirondacks and the Champlain Valley to this magnificent river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was paddling a stretch of water on the St. Lawrence River yesterday and had [&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\/4382"}],"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=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}