{"id":2426,"date":"2022-09-19T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:44:52","slug":"john-fox-jr-an-appalachian-storyteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"John Fox Jr., An Appalachian Storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first writers to bring the real Appalachia to the world was John Fox Jr., who had come to the coal boom town of Big Stone Gap, making it his home.  <\/p>\n<p>Today we tell the story of this true Appalachian storyteller.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxmLIOtFWew?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to click the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; button on our YouTube channel to subscribe to our videos.  Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n<p>(Picture of Jellico, Tennessee, by Brian Stansberry; some stock footage provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/videvo.net\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Videvo<\/a>, downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/videvo.net\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">videvo.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first writers to bring the real Appalachia to the world was John Fox Jr., who had come to the coal boom town of Big Stone Gap, making it his home. Today we tell the story of this true Appalachian storyteller. Be sure to click the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; button on our YouTube channel to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"John Fox Jr., An Appalachian Storyteller","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,31,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-writers","category-the-1910s","category-the-coalfields","category-the-oughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-D8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}