{"id":638602,"date":"2022-05-05T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T07:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=241907"},"modified":"2022-05-05T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T07:56:36","slug":"inflating-hopes-and-dreams-in-manchin-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/05\/inflating-hopes-and-dreams-in-manchin-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflating Hopes and Dreams in Manchin Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something exciting is happening in McDowell County, West Virginia. There, in what used to be coal country, the American Federation of Teachers is leading a project called Reconnecting McDowell. It&#8217;s a program initiated over a decade ago by Gayle Manchin, wife of now Senator (then Governor) Joe, and it makes you think long and hard  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/05\/inflating-hopes-and-dreams-in-manchin-country\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/05\/inflating-hopes-and-dreams-in-manchin-country\/\">Inflating Hopes and Dreams in Manchin Country?<\/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\/2022\/05\/05\/inflating-hopes-and-dreams-in-manchin-country\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something exciting is happening in McDowell County, West Virginia. There, in what used to be coal country, the American Federation of Teachers is leading a project called Reconnecting McDowell. It&#8217;s a program initiated over a decade ago by Gayle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"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\/638602"}],"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\/2133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638603,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638602\/revisions\/638603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}