{"id":927,"date":"2004-05-17T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/small_town_loss\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T15:26:06","slug":"small_town_loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/small_town_loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Re. Ike Skelton (D-MO), 47 % of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and 44% of those killed in Iraq come from &#8220;small town and rural America.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure how that area is defined for this statistic, but undoubtedly it&#8217;s paying a disproportionate price in the military campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/small_town_loss\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Small Town Loss\"><p>According to Re. Ike Skelton (D-MO), 47 % of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and 44% of those killed in Iraq come from &#8220;small town and rural America.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure how that area is defined for this statistic, but undoubtedly it&#8217;s paying a disproportionate price in the military campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}