{"id":517,"date":"2017-08-18T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/item\/clairfield-big-rock\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T20:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:06:22","slug":"clairfield-big-rock","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/item\/clairfield-big-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Clairfield big rock&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sign that reads \u201cPrepare to meet thy God\u201d is painted on a rock that overlooks the small town of Clairfield, Tennessee, in the Clearfork Valley. Twenty miles long, the Clearfork Valley held a string of little unincorporated towns that Reporter Bill Kovach writes, \u201chad outlived their reason for being there. They were cut off from the outside world by high mountains with dangerous winding roads\u2026When the coal was mined by hand and in large demand, it was a busy prosperous valley with 30,000 people\u2026When coal mining became mechanized, and the shallow coal of the valley was not profitable, the mining companies moved out. Miners of the valley were struck a final blow when the United Mine Workers left the area\u2026They were a valley of forlorn people who got little help from county, or state governments. Almost every family in the valley was on some form of federal aid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":518,"menu_order":4,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[5,4],"class_list":["post-517","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-appalachia","section-jackcorn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/517\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}