{"id":514,"date":"2009-02-19T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/19\/skating-into-obama-mania-this-morning\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T16:23:00","slug":"skating-into-obama-mania-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/19\/skating-into-obama-mania-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating into Obama-mania this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/lucy-and-karen-712511.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 240px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/lucy-and-karen-712504.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>That&#8217;s right, our reporter, David Sommerstein, decided that parking at Dow&#8217;s Lake, and skating the Rideau Canal (nearly 5 miles&#8230;)  into downtown Ottawa would be a good way to get to the press conference with Pres. Obama today&#8230;and he was right.<br \/>He&#8217;s on the scene, has got his press credentials &#8212; he even ran into our Ottawa correspondents Lucy Martin (left) and Karen Kelly.<br \/>David will be checking in with All Before Five host Jonathan Brown this afternoon. He&#8217;ll be reporting for NCPR tomorrow during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour,and is on the rundown for a piece for NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition as well. It&#8217;s that skating thing&#8230;our NPR editor said her colleagues in Washington were &#8220;capitvated&#8221; by the thought that someone would skate to a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Update at 11:45 &#8212;  four helicopters in the air, shadowing the motorcade and arrival at Parliament Hill. Obama waved, then joined PM Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, our reporter, David Sommerstein, decided that parking at Dow&#8217;s Lake, and skating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}