I know, I know:\u00a0 President Barack Obama’s visit to Fort Drum tomorrow is a big deal and its real news.\u00a0 His conversation with soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division is part of a reset of national policy in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
This from the Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n The announcement comes as Obama nears a decision on beginning the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Obama could announce as early as this week how many troops will start coming home next month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But if that’s not enough undiluted political celebrity for our region, there is also news that William and Kate — yes, the William and Kate — will be arriving in Ottawa at the end of the month as part of their national tour of Canada.\u00a0 This from Global Regina<\/a>.<\/p>\n The nine-day whirlwind that will take the newlyweds from the nation\u2019s capital to its east coast to the north and back down the to the Rockies, will have markedly different tone than past visits \u2013 with more a focus on sports and rodeos than plaques and tree-planting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Surely we can talk the Royal Couple into visiting the Adirondacks, right?\u00a0 Has anyone told them that Donnelly’s is open for the season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know, I know:\u00a0 President Barack Obama’s visit to Fort Drum tomorrow is a big […]<\/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\/4389"}],"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=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}