{"id":6025,"date":"2011-04-07T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2011-04-07T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:47:56","slug":"do-you-love-boulder-get-ready-to-talk-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=6025","title":{"rendered":"Do You Love Boulder?  Get Ready to Talk about It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I love Boulder?\u00a0 Because it\u2019s a great place to raise kids.\u00a0 So great, in fact, that I left a successful career, newly-built home and good friends to move <em>back <\/em>to this city, about eight years ago.\u00a0 Any regrets?\u00a0 No way.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made new friends, grown my business and continue to be an enthusiastic ambassador of Boulder\u2019s family-friendly, active lifestyle.\u00a0 What about you?\u00a0 What\u2019s your story?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"283\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GZJmNHspAMk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GZJmNHspAMk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be shy \u2013 spread the love!\u00a0 The City of Boulder\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveboulder.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Love Boulder campaign<\/a> is adding a video element to spread the word about our city\u2019s\u00a0 \u201ccultural, traditional and happily unconventional characteristics.\u201d\u00a0 Businesses, residents and visitors can participate, either by posting their own short videos, or by going on-camera with the I Love Boulder roving reporter\u00a0 &#8212; me.<\/p>\n<p>After being an actual TV reporter\/anchor for 12 years (KCNC Ch. 4 Denver, among others), I\u2019m used to interviewing people.\u00a0 But the enthusiasm with which folks are responding to this campaign blows me away!\u00a0 It\u2019s refreshing to hear the many, diverse reasons why people love Boulder \u2013 from the food, to the active lifestyle, to the alternative therapies \u2013 you name it, somebody loves it and is willing to share.<\/p>\n<p>The I Love Boulder campaign is designed to be grassroots \u2013 a real community project.\u00a0 You can \u201clike\u201d the I Love Boulder Community Project page on Facebook, read tweets from the campaign, wear an I Love Boulder t-shirt (from Campus Street Sportswear on Pearl Street) and\u00a0 &#8212; most importantly &#8212;\u00a0 voice your own thoughts and opinions.\u00a0 Just shoot a :30 to 1:00 video, post it on your own YouTube channel and \u201ctag\u201d it appropriately (learn more about tagging and sharing at <a title=\"I love Boulder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loveboulder.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.loveboulder.org<\/a>).\u00a0 It\u2019s as easy as that.<\/p>\n<p>Now, because I\u2019m a busy local resident \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honkmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">working<\/a>, being a mom and doing plenty of volunteer activities \u2013 I can\u2019t be everywhere.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I\u2019m depending on you to share your love.\u00a0 If you see me at the Farmers Market, hiking at Chautauqua, shopping on Pearl Street \u2013 usually with my trusty video camera in hand \u2013 say hello, and tell me why you love Boulder.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t, tell me anyway \u2013 by making your own I Love Boulder video<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/christine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"christine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/christine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The world is watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I love Boulder?\u00a0 Because it\u2019s a great place to raise kids.\u00a0 So great, in fact, that I left a successful career, newly-built home and good friends to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":6031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-to-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}