{"id":166,"date":"2008-10-23T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/mellencamp-for-obama-says-small-towns-dying\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:11:00","slug":"mellencamp-for-obama-says-small-towns-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/mellencamp-for-obama-says-small-towns-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellencamp for Obama, says &quot;Small Towns Dying&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mellencamp came late to the Obama campaign, but in the final days of the campaign he&#8217;s joined a small-town focused radio campaign in his home state of Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve seen a lot of small towns,&#8221; Mellencamp drawls, &#8220;but now I\u2019m seein&#8217; small towns across America dying. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The answer?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is John Mellencamp, and I\u2019m proud to support Barack Obama, because whether you live in a small town or a big city, it\u2019s time for a change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New polling shows Obama may have a chance of stealing away Indiana, which has tilted red for decades.  Hear the ad here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/content\/mellencampad\/\"><br \/>http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/content\/mellencampad\/<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mellencamp came late to the Obama campaign, but in the final days of the [&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\/166"}],"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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}