{"id":13543,"date":"2023-06-25T06:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=13543"},"modified":"2023-06-25T06:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T10:51:11","slug":"hillbilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/hillbilly\/","title":{"rendered":"hillbilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13544\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230625bw-hillbilly-sign.jpg\" alt=\"highway sign Asheville NC\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230625bw-hillbilly-sign.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230625bw-hillbilly-sign-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230625bw-hillbilly-sign-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230625bw-hillbilly-sign-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pipe smoking, gun toting, barefoot, dead eyes, ragged clothes, sloppy, diffident, illiterate, ignorant, no problem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ASHEVILLE &#8211; A Seattle-based company has purchased The Mountaineer Inn, Asheville&#8217;s iconic Tunnel Road motor court, for $6.1 million, with plans to refresh the 1939 motel and adopt it into its outdoor recreation-oriented brand.&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/05\/31\/ashevilles-mountaineer-inn-sold-for-6-1m-whats-next-for-the-motel\/70268243007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen-Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Appalachian region and its people have historically been stereotyped by observers, with the basic perceptions of Appalachians painting them as backwards, rural, and anti-progressive. These widespread, limiting views of Appalachia and its people began to develop in the post-Civil War. Those who &#8220;discovered&#8221; Appalachia found it to be a very strange environment, and depicted its &#8220;otherness&#8221; in their writing. These depictions have persisted and are still present in common understandings of Appalachia today, with a particular increase of stereotypical imagery during the late 1950s and early 1960s in sitcoms. Common Appalachian stereotypes include those concerning economics, appearance, and the caricature of the &#8220;hillbilly.&#8221;&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachian_stereotypes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE &#8211; A Seattle-based company has purchased The Mountaineer Inn, Asheville&#8217;s iconic Tunnel Road motor court, for $6.1 million, with plans to refresh the 1939 motel and adopt it into its outdoor recreation-oriented brand.&#8211;Citizen-Times The Appalachian region and its people have historically been stereotyped by observers, with the basic perceptions of Appalachians painting them as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/hillbilly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;hillbilly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,24,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-signs","category-strange-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13545,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions\/13545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}