{"id":5172,"date":"2012-11-18T09:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/channel57.org\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2013-04-30T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:00:34","slug":"the-dust-bowl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=5172","title":{"rendered":"THE DUST BOWL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel57.org\/images\/dustbowl.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5170\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/channel57.org\/images\/dustbowl-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/dustbowl-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/dustbowl.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Reaping the Whirlwind<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TUESDAY, APRIL 30 @ 9:00PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE DUST BOWL<\/strong> chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the &#8220;Great Plow-Up,&#8221; followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs and seldom seen movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and equally incredible human perseverance. It is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us\u2014a lesson we ignore at our peril.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/dustbowl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaping the Whirlwind TUESDAY, APRIL 30 @ 9:00PM THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the &#8220;Great Plow-Up,&#8221; followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=5172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE DUST BOWL<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}