{"id":17562,"date":"2013-05-15T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=17562"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T22:14:21","slug":"til-we-meet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/05\/15\/til-we-meet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Til We Meet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17572\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 291px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/05\/5-15-Farewell1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17572\" title=\"5-15 Farewell\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/05\/5-15-Farewell1-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/05\/5-15-Farewell1-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/05\/5-15-Farewell1-620x638.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/05\/5-15-Farewell1.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Molly Messick \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The high adventure of reporting in Owyhee County<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today is my last at <em>StateImpact Idaho<\/em>. After better than four years spent reporting in the West, next month I&#8217;ll make good on a longtime goal. I&#8217;ll take a couple of months away from reporting for intensive Spanish study in Central America, something that will benefit my work in the future.<\/p>\n<p>There are many things I&#8217;ve valued about this job. I&#8217;m grateful to have met fascinating people with stories to tell in towns and communities all over this state, from Laclede to Council to American Falls. (I&#8217;ve reported four feature stories from that one little town of 4,500 since <em>StateImpact Idaho<\/em> launched in September 2011!)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been proud to be part of a project that seeks to explain complex policy decisions and economic trends in interesting, comprehensible and human terms. From <a title=\"Boise\u2019s Housing Bust Leaves Unlikely Victims In A Neighborhood That Saw The Worst\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/13\/boises-housing-bust-leaves-unlikely-victims-in-a-neighborhood-that-saw-the-worst\/\">home foreclosure in Boise<\/a> to the <a title=\"In Rural Idaho, The Recession Changes One Town\u2019s Fate\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/11\/in-rural-idaho-the-recession-changes-one-towns-fate\/\">aspirations of small towns hard-hit by the recession<\/a>, to the <a title=\"A Young Refugee Searches For A Place In Idaho\u2019s Reshaped Economy\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/27\/a-young-refugee-searches-for-a-place-in-idahos-reshaped-economy\/\">ins and outs of refugee resettlement<\/a> and the <a title=\"Nixing Personal Property Tax Would \u201cDevastate\u201d One Eastern Idaho County\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/01\/25\/nixing-personal-property-tax-would-devastate-one-eastern-idaho-county\/\">push to repeal Idaho&#8217;s business personal property tax<\/a>, there has been no shortage of important and meaningful stories to tell. It has been my good fortune to work for a reporting project that allows the time and space to tell them.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;ve been surrounded by good people. I owe many thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boisestatepublicradio.org\/people\/capacity\/staff\" target=\"_blank\">Boise State Public Radio newsroom and staff<\/a>, the excellent group of folks at the helm of <em>StateImpact<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org \" target=\"_blank\">at NPR<\/a>, and you, our loyal listeners and readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last at StateImpact Idaho. After better than four years spent reporting in the West, next month I&#8217;ll make good on a longtime goal. I&#8217;ll take a couple of months away from reporting for intensive Spanish study in Central America, something that will benefit my work in the future. There are many things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":17572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17597,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions\/17597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}