{"id":1378,"date":"2014-12-26T21:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2015-01-12T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T20:17:42","slug":"nebraskas-lonely-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/26\/nebraskas-lonely-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska\u2019s Lonely Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I travel to the East or West Coasts, people sometimes ask me, \u201cWhy do you live in Nebraska?\u201d Or even, \u201cHave you considered moving?\u201d Outsiders often believe Nebraska is a nondescript state with little to recommend it in culture, politics or landscape. But I reply that Nebraska is my home and that I love its people and its geography. To me there is nothing more beautiful than the muddy Platte River or the vast undulating Sand Hills. Of course, our state can be blistering in the summer, arctic in the winter. It\u2019s a windswept, spare place designed to toughen up its inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>I also explain that Nebraska needs progressives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/27\/opinion\/nebraskas-lonely-progressives.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: When I travel to the East or West Coasts, people sometimes ask me, \u201cWhy do you live in Nebraska?\u201d Or even, \u201cHave you considered moving?\u201d Outsiders often believe Nebraska is a nondescript state with little to recommend it in culture, politics or landscape. But I reply that Nebraska is my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/26\/nebraskas-lonely-progressives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nebraska\u2019s Lonely Progressives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[8,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}