{"id":3320,"date":"2025-01-31T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:54:50","slug":"hammer-and-steel-the-story-of-john-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"Hammer and Steel: The Story of John Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/1N-SwheLqw8?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>Railroads played a crucial role in the development of Appalachia, but the construction of these vital links to the world was no easy feat. Today we go on the road to tell the story of John Henry, a steel-driving man whose legend has become a symbol of the struggle between man and machine.<\/p>\n<p>Come with us to the Big Bend Tunnel near Talcott, West Virginia, as we share another one of the Stories of Appalachia.\u2028<br \/>\nAnd be sure to give us a thumbs up, leave a comment and subscribe to our YouTube channel.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railroads played a crucial role in the development of Appalachia, but the construction of these vital links to the world was no easy feat. Today we go on the road to tell the story of John Henry, a steel-driving man whose legend has become a symbol of the struggle between man and machine. Come with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Join us as we go on the road to tell the tale of John Henry, a symbol of strength and determination in Appalachia! #appalachia #history #railroads #talcottwv","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}},"categories":[85,40,95,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore","category-legends","category-the-iron-horse","category-the-railroads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-Ry","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}