{"id":297155,"date":"2026-06-23T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=297155"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:37:12","slug":"foundry-for-the-future-the-silicon-valley-of-appalachia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=297155","title":{"rendered":"Foundry for the Future: The Silicon Valley of Appalachia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The familiar hum of a coal barge pushing the region&#8217;s black gold up the Monongahela River holds the same low rumble it did a century ago, softly echoing through the valley towns where steel once defined the American identity&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/06\/23\/foundry_for_the_future_the_silicon_valley_of_appalachia_703285.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The familiar hum of a coal barge pushing the region&#8217;s black gold up the Monongahela River holds the same low rumble it did a century ago, softly echoing through the valley towns where steel once defined the American identity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297155"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=297155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}