{"id":626,"date":"2009-03-25T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/25\/check-out-year-of-hard-choices\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T11:34:00","slug":"check-out-year-of-hard-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/25\/check-out-year-of-hard-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out Year of Hard Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know you follow a lot of blogs out there, but some of the new voices popping up in our Year of Hard Choices blog are fascinating, personal, intimate&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/hardchoices\/blogger.html\">check them out<\/a> and leave your comments.<\/p>\n<p>Great stuff already from Jill in Moira:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019ve never been able to get a car loan, a tight credit market is all you\u2019ve experienced. Vacations and retirement accounts don\u2019t exist in the world of minimum-wage jobs. Being inured to deprivation makes want and need feel less shocking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shari chimed in with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This past winter the economic deterioration consequences for low-income families really raised its ugly head! Fuel, utilities, back rent &#8211; these became the most frequent requests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a question from Melinda in Saranac Lake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I was driving through some of the more remote areas of our Region last week, on my way from Saranac Lake to Watertown, I wondered how the folks living in communities such as Star Lake, etc. are surviving. What kind of jobs are they able to create when the population is so sparse?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click over to their blog and chime in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you follow a lot of blogs out there, but some of the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}