{"id":1559,"date":"2009-12-06T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2009-12-06T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T19:08:53","slug":"ruralpolitans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Ruralpolitans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ruralpolitans-1.jpg' title='ruralpolitans-1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ruralpolitans-1.jpg' alt='ruralpolitans-1.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Wall Street Journa<\/em>l<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1177\">I have often wondered<\/a> why we weren&#8217;t seeing more signs of a dropout movement, or a back-to-the-land movement, during this economic downturn. Maybe it&#8217;s happening. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703735004574571742502599748.html\">The Wall Street Journal had a piece this week<\/a> about migration to rural areas, calling these back-to-the-landers &#8220;ruralpolitans.&#8221; It&#8217;s a rational thing to do. And yes, having the Internet makes it easier and diminishes the feeling of isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal I have often wondered why we weren&#8217;t seeing more signs of a dropout movement, or a back-to-the-land movement, during this economic downturn. Maybe it&#8217;s happening. The Wall Street Journal had a piece this week about migration to rural areas, calling these back-to-the-landers &#8220;ruralpolitans.&#8221; It&#8217;s a rational thing to do. And yes, having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruralpolitans?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-economic-issues","category-political-issues","category-retirement-issues","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}