{"id":1187083,"date":"2023-08-21T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=292206"},"modified":"2023-08-21T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T05:50:13","slug":"a-tale-of-two-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/21\/a-tale-of-two-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me, Jason Aldean&#8217;s recent hit &#8220;Try That in a Small Town&#8221; provides the best\u00a0 answer to an Internet joke question I&#8217;ve seen floating around for several years: &#8220;If you could completely eliminate one genre of music, what genre would you choose and why would it be modern country?&#8221; The only thing remotely &#8220;country&#8221; about  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/21\/a-tale-of-two-countries\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/21\/a-tale-of-two-countries\/\">A Tale of Two Countries<\/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\/08\/21\/a-tale-of-two-countries\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, Jason Aldean&#8217;s recent hit &#8220;Try That in a Small Town&#8221; provides the best\u00a0 answer to an Internet joke question I&#8217;ve seen floating around for several years: &#8220;If you could completely eliminate one genre of music, what ge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187083"}],"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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187087,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187083\/revisions\/1187087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}