{"id":422,"date":"2009-01-16T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/16\/will-barack-obama-destroy-our-rural-way-of-life\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:38:00","slug":"will-barack-obama-destroy-our-rural-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/16\/will-barack-obama-destroy-our-rural-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Barack Obama destroy our rural way of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post sends a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/15\/AR2009011504254.html?hpid=artslot\">dispatch today<\/a> from Brinkley, Arkansas, a place that used to have things like stores and a movie theater.<\/p>\n<p>Things have gone wrong there, big-time, and Wayne Loewer tells the Post that Obama could make it even worse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m worried that he&#8217;s not gonna understand the rural way of life,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That comment he made about guns and religion, it&#8217;s frightening, you have to admit,&#8221; says the secretary at his accountant&#8217;s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?  Does it matter that rural white communities (like ours in the North Country) are increasingly governed by urban (and often African American) politicians?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post sends a dispatch today from Brinkley, Arkansas, a place that used to [&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\/422"}],"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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}