{"id":1044,"date":"2009-05-19T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2009-05-19T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T18:06:50","slug":"mediastorm-publishes-driftless-stories-from-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/mediastorm-publishes-driftless-stories-from-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaStorm publishes Driftless: Stories from Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/0025.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/media\/0025\/images\/544_Link\/0025.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/0025.htm\" target=\"_new\"><strong>Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life in Iowa can be punishing. Many Iowans expend their lives sweating over soil and spilling the blood of livestock; they endure the hardships associated with a life inextricably bound to the ups and downs of nature. Today, those challenges and a shift in our nation&#8217;s economy have pushed the youth of rural communities to migrate to the metropolises of America. Those left in the wake of this out-migration continue their lives, seemingly unchanged from the generations that preceded them, and entombed in obscurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The tension of contemporary rural life plays out here: the struggle of a family farm to continue, disenfranchised youth, the slaughterhouse, migrant labor, and the aged fading from Iowa&#8217;s mythical landscape. Through their stories we gain insight to a way of life that is disappearing, a culture that could be lost forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As &#8220;community&#8221; continues to be homogenized in zones of urban sprawl across the globe, we must consider all that we are losing\u2014development should not come at the expense of more fragile communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier Life in Iowa can be punishing. Many Iowans expend their lives sweating over soil and spilling the blood of livestock; they endure the hardships associated with a life inextricably bound to the ups and downs of nature. Today, those challenges and a shift in our nation&#8217;s economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[41,576,577,610,580,608,27,28,40,609,607],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediastorm-announcements","category-mediastorm-projects","tag-brian-storm","tag-danny-wilcox-frazier","tag-driftless","tag-family-farm","tag-iowa","tag-media-storm","tag-mediastorm","tag-multimedia","tag-photojournalism","tag-rural-life","tag-stories-from-iowa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}