{"id":3682,"date":"2011-07-25T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2011-07-25T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:41:00","slug":"powering-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/powering-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Powering a Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/index.htm\">University of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a> has launched this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/poweringanation.org\/\">Powering A Nation site<\/a>, highlighting our country\u2019s complicated relationship with coal. Throughout your experience on the site you\u2019re introduced to miners who depend on the black rock for their livelihoods, local citizens who suffer from its adverse health effects, and everyday folks who flip on a light switch without thinking twice about what it takes to create that power. <\/p>\n<p>The stories in, \u201cCoal: A Love Story\u201d give you a new appreciation for the complexities surrounding the coal and energy industry. The piece represents an innovative form of journalism where the audience is given all sides of the story and allowed to explore the issues they care about through interactive graphics and source data.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poweringanation.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/powering_nation_graphic.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Coal: A Love Story\" width=\"500\" height=\"713\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See for yourself at: <a href=\"http:\/\/poweringanation.org\/\">http:\/\/poweringanation.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched this year\u2019s Powering A Nation site, highlighting our country\u2019s complicated relationship with coal. Throughout your experience on the site you\u2019re introduced to miners who depend on the black rock for their livelihoods, local citizens who suffer from its adverse health effects, and everyday folks who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediastorm-announcements","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}