{"id":1032,"date":"2013-08-07T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2016-07-04T01:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:07:58","slug":"will-edenton-be-able-to-heal-from-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Will Edenton be able to heal from this?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130807Dowd.jpg\" alt=\"130807Dowd\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Aug. 7, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAfter (the first episode of \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d aired in 1991), letters and phone calls poured into the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c \u2018Dear Mayor: Thank God I don\u2019t live in Edenton. It\u2019s full of witches&#8230;..\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c \u2018Dear Mayor: I suppose since lynching Negroes is verboten, the next best thing is for Southerners to cannibalize each other&#8230;.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cJohn Dowd, Edenton\u2019s mayor at the time, is trying to correct some of the damage done to the town\u2019s reputation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMany reporters have wanted to know: \u2018Will Edenton be able to heal from this?\u2019 The question is a little too touchy-feely for some residents, too intimate and much too insincere. Dowd replies, \u2018Hell, we\u2019ve recovered from the Civil War, from World War II.\u2019 Then, dryly: \u2018Yeah, I think we\u2019ll recover from this.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cLittle Town of Horrors\u201d by Kathy Dobie in McCall\u2019s (June 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">The Civil War, World War II and the Little Rascals Day Care case? The mayor\u2019s resolve was apparent, if not his logic \u2013 but that was true for the whole case, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 7, 2013 \u201cAfter (the first episode of \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d aired in 1991), letters and phone calls poured into the mayor\u2019s office. \u201c \u2018Dear Mayor: Thank God I don\u2019t live in Edenton. It\u2019s full of witches&#8230;..\u2019 \u201c \u2018Dear Mayor: I suppose since lynching Negroes is verboten, the next best thing is for Southerners to cannibalize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}