{"id":676,"date":"2009-04-13T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/13\/theres-no-place-like-home\/"},"modified":"2009-04-13T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T20:22:00","slug":"theres-no-place-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/13\/theres-no-place-like-home\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no place like home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a little town called Sitka, Alaska and some very cool footage of my village has turned up in a Cargill advertisement (of all places). <\/p>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cqoNC3Loq5U\">video out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I worked a lot of years in the fish house shown briefly (I was too seasick to go out in the boats&#8230;but my brother crewed one of the trollers.)<\/p>\n<p>The place that looks sort of like a cafe (with all the pictures on the wall) is actually the Pioneer Bar, one of the best places in the world to drink after a big halibut season.<\/p>\n<p>(The P-Bar was briefly world-famous a couple of decades ago when a live rattlesnake crawled mysteriously out of the bathroom and got a write-up in the Associated Press.)<\/p>\n<p>More true tales?  Back in 1974, a guy named Porky Bickar dumped a load of old truck tires in the dormant volcano shown in the video and set them on fire. <\/p>\n<p>Images <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olypen.com\/sitkacds\/porky.htm\">of the smoking mountain<\/a> were printed in newspapers around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>More about Sitka?  Check out some cool surfing video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6HruLc8hGp8\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a little town called Sitka, Alaska and some very cool footage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/676"}],"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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}