{"id":988,"date":"2008-11-07T05:40:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2008-11-07T05:40:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T12:40:06","slug":"carolina-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Carolina blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/statemapredbluer512.png' title='statemapredbluer512.png'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/statemapredbluer512.png' alt='statemapredbluer512.png' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though the North Carolina elections board won&#8217;t release the final count until later this month, the Associated Press has called it &#8212; North Carolina is now a blue state.<\/p>\n<p>As though to prove that this is a real phenomenon, yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/front\/story\/1285587.html\">Delta Airlines announced<\/a> that it plans to start nonstop service from Raleigh-Durham to Paris. Last week, US Airways announced that it&#8217;s planning to start nonstop service from Charlotte to Paris.<\/p>\n<p>This is not really something new. It&#8217;s a return to the norm. Lyndon Johnson, it is reported, said, &#8220;We have just lost the South for a generation&#8221; after he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to be connected to the coasts again, and to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the North Carolina elections board won&#8217;t release the final count until later this month, the Associated Press has called it &#8212; North Carolina is now a blue state. As though to prove that this is a real phenomenon, yesterday Delta Airlines announced that it plans to start nonstop service from Raleigh-Durham to Paris. Last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carolina blue&#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":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}