{"id":298802,"date":"2026-07-15T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=298802"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:37:17","slug":"what-i-found-after-leaving-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=298802","title":{"rendered":"What I Found After Leaving D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started my first Saturday in my new hometown in rural Tennessee on a mission to explore it and take in all of the small-town charm. But first &#8211; coffee. What I came to find was that the town had no Starbucks, no Target, no long list of well-known restaurants&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/07\/15\/what_i_found_after_leaving_dc_705275.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>I started my first Saturday in my new hometown in rural Tennessee on a mission to explore it and take in all of the small-town charm. But first &#8211; coffee. What I came to find was that the town had no Starbucks, no Target, no long list of well-known restaurants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/298802"}],"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=298802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298802"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=298802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}