{"id":4970,"date":"2011-10-20T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T09:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2011-10-24T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:58:26","slug":"morning-read-amish-beard-cutting-attacks-plague-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/20\/morning-read-amish-beard-cutting-attacks-plague-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Amish beard cutting attacks plague Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Country has a growing and robust Amish community, particularly in the St. Lawrence Valley, so this story &#8212; reported most recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/10\/19\/141526277\/amish-community-shaken-by-attacks-from-splinter-group\">by NPR<\/a> &#8212; caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>In Amish country in Ohio, there has been an outbreak of a particular kind of violence:\u00a0 beard cutting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the night of Oct. 4, Myron and Arlene Miller were asleep in their  home in Mechanicstown,  Ohio, when they heard a knock on the door.  According to their friend Bob Comer, when Myron came downstairs, he  found five men standing on his doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They  pulled him out in the front yard, and they have scissors and a  battery-powered shaver and everything,&#8221; Comer says. &#8220;They&#8217;re trying to  hold him down and cut his beard off and cut his hair off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miller  yelled at his wife to call 911. Then the men let him go and ran back to  the trailer and had the driver take off, Comer says.<\/p>\n<p>Myron Miller, who declined an interview, was left with a ragged beard: a shameful state for an Amish man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  beard for Amish men is a symbol of their adult manhood,&#8221; says Donald  Kraybill, a sociologist at Elizabethtown College and author of several  books about the Amish, including <em>Amish Grace<\/em> and <em>Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There have been no reports of similar incidents in the North Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Country has a growing and robust Amish community, particularly in the St. Lawrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970"}],"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=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}