{"id":6676,"date":"2015-05-15T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2015-05-15T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:35:34","slug":"rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6676","title":{"rendered":"Rural communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"934\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-1.jpg\" alt=\"francisco-1\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-1-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, I was asked to attend and shoot photos of a community gathering in northern Stokes County. The people there are concerned about the possible closing of the elementary school there. To them, the school is an important part of their community. To the school board and the county commissioners, the school is a budget problem in an era in which the county (like many rural counties) actually is losing population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-2.jpg\" alt=\"francisco-2\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-3.jpg\" alt=\"francisco-3\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"588\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-4.jpg\" alt=\"francisco-4\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-4-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1097\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-5.jpg\" alt=\"francisco-5\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-5-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-5-933x1024.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-6.jpg\" alt=\"francisco-6\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/francisco-6-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I was asked to attend and shoot photos of a community gathering in northern Stokes County. The people there are concerned about the possible closing of the elementary school there. To them, the school is an important part of their community. To the school board and the county commissioners, the school is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rural communities&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","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=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}