{"id":1079238,"date":"2023-06-11T05:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T05:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=284639"},"modified":"2023-06-11T05:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T05:42:04","slug":"richland-smalltown-americana-with-an-atomic-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/11\/richland-smalltown-americana-with-an-atomic-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Richland: Smalltown Americana \u2013 With an Atomic Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_284640\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284640\" class=\"wp-image-284640 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-31-at-9.47.04-AM-680x490.png\" alt=\"Image of students by Richland High School.\" width=\"680\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-284640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Helki Frantzen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At a decidedly leisurely pace, director Irene Lusztig painstakingly paints a portrait of an outpost of Americana in eastern Washington State, Richland where virtually all of the townsfolk, except for homemakers, worked since the 1940s at neighboring Hanford. By most economic indicators, those employed by Hanford\u2019s industrial plant earned a decent if not opulent standard of living. The workers and their families enjoyed prosperity and a river in a lovely rural Northwestern setting, where these members of the proletariat could afford to buy consumer products, take their families on vacations and send their children to good universities. \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/11\/richland-smalltown-americana-with-an-atomic-twist\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/11\/richland-smalltown-americana-with-an-atomic-twist\/\">Richland: Smalltown Americana \u2013 With an Atomic Twist<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/11\/richland-smalltown-americana-with-an-atomic-twist\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Helki Frantzen.<\/p>\n<p>At a decidedly leisurely pace, director Irene Lusztig painstakingly paints a portrait of an outpost of Americana in eastern Washington State, Richland where virtually all of the townsfolk, except for homemakers, worked since &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,229,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079304,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079238\/revisions\/1079304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}