{"id":4210,"date":"2012-05-30T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2012-05-30T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:36:18","slug":"the-winston-salem-journal-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"The Winston-Salem Journal steps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fracking-foes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fracking-foes.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fracking-foes\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the frustrations we&#8217;ve dealt with in fighting fracking in Stokes County &#8212; and in North Carolina &#8212; has been getting the attention of the Winston-Salem Journal. The potential fracking areas in Stokes and Rockingham counties are right in the Journal&#8217;s circulation area. We&#8217;d been trying for weeks to get the Journal to tell its readers that there are potential fracking areas right in their back yards. But other than a lukewarm editorial that did not even mention Stokes County, the Journal has ignored us &#8212; until today. They wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.journalnow.com\/news\/2012\/may\/30\/wsmain01-group-urges-stokes-county-commissioners-t-ar-2317365\/\">quite a decent story<\/a> today, and the were sensible enough to put it on A-1.<\/p>\n<p>This venture into community organizing has been very interesting. Fracking &#8212; once people understand some basic facts &#8212; is a nonpartisan issue. Everyone is against it. People are grateful that you&#8217;ve let them know what&#8217;s going on, because the popular media have done such a terrible job.<\/p>\n<p>The local politicians are really starting to feel the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frustrations we&#8217;ve dealt with in fighting fracking in Stokes County &#8212; and in North Carolina &#8212; has been getting the attention of the Winston-Salem Journal. The potential fracking areas in Stokes and Rockingham counties are right in the Journal&#8217;s circulation area. We&#8217;d been trying for weeks to get the Journal to tell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Winston-Salem Journal steps up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-issues","category-rural-issues","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}