{"id":1319,"date":"2018-09-14T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2018-09-14T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:55:21","slug":"bridging-the-urban-rural-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/09\/14\/bridging-the-urban-rural-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CityLab<\/em> has a new article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/life\/2018\/09\/can-exchange-programs-help-bridge-the-urban-rural-divide\/569137\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how urban and rural residents can find common ground<\/a>. In the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyrux.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX)<\/a>, for example, &#8220;participants go on three weekend-long retreats to strengthen bonds with people from other parts of the state, creating a &#8216;currency of connection&#8217; (in the words of RUX organizers) to increase mutual understanding, spark collective problem-solving, and, of course, develop friendships across divides, whether real or perceived.&#8221; Fascinating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CityLab has a new article about how urban and rural residents can find common ground. In the\u00a0Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX), for example, &#8220;participants go on three weekend-long retreats to strengthen bonds with people from other parts of the state, creating a &#8216;currency of connection&#8217; (in the words of RUX organizers) to increase mutual understanding, spark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[463,193],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-cities","tag-stratification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}