{"id":3455,"date":"2025-03-14T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:20:47","slug":"appalachian-defiance-ollie-combs-fight-for-her-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3455","title":{"rendered":"Appalachian Defiance: Ollie Combs&#8217; Fight For Her Home"},"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\/04ZxYaUE1Jw?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>On today\u2019s YouTube video we share the inspiring story of Ollie Combs, a formidable Appalachian woman who stood her ground against a powerful coal company in Knott County, Kentucky. <\/p>\n<p>Born in 1904, Ollie&#8217;s life took a dramatic turn when the Caperton Coal Company threatened to quite literally strip away her land and home to get at the coal beneath it. Rather than back down, Ollie made a decision\u2014she sat in front of the bulldozers, refusing to move, igniting a battle that would capture the attention of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s YouTube video we share the inspiring story of Ollie Combs, a formidable Appalachian woman who stood her ground against a powerful coal company in Knott County, Kentucky. Born in 1904, Ollie&#8217;s life took a dramatic turn when the Caperton Coal Company threatened to quite literally strip away her land and home to get [&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":"","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":[9,84,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities","category-the-1960s","category-the-coalfields"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-TJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}