{"id":6509,"date":"2012-09-04T06:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2012-09-04T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:40:09","slug":"labor-day-and-last-call-at-donnellys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/09\/04\/labor-day-and-last-call-at-donnellys\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day and last call at Donnelly&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/09\/04\/labor-day-and-last-call-at-donnellys\/last-day-of-summer-at-donnellys\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6510\" title=\"last day of summer at donnelly's\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/last-day-of-summer-at-donnellys-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/last-day-of-summer-at-donnellys-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/last-day-of-summer-at-donnellys-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/last-day-of-summer-at-donnellys-337x450.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>It was bittersweet (but mostly sweet) last night as crowds of people converged on Donnelly&#8217;s, the legendary soft ice cream stand between Paul Smiths and Saranac Lake.<\/p>\n<p>It was a gorgeous Adirondack evening, with plenty of summer warmth, but you could also trace the first smells and flashes of color that come with autumn.<\/p>\n<p>And this being Labor Day, it was time for another seasonal ritual:\u00a0 the last swirled cone before the closed sign goes up.<\/p>\n<p>Today the stand is dark and soon it will be half-buried under drifts of snow.\u00a0 But at the end of Labor Day, one glorious last time, it was vanilla swirled with pistachio.<\/p>\n<p>My absolute favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bittersweet (but mostly sweet) last night as crowds of people converged on Donnelly&#8217;s, [&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":[22,6998,6125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509"}],"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=6509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}