{"id":3245,"date":"2019-03-09T21:07:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2019-03-09T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:07:47","slug":"death-noted-former-publisher-of-edenton-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3245","title":{"rendered":"Death noted: Former publisher of Edenton paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3246\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190309Manning200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"129\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Manning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">March 9, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Pete Manning, 89, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyadvance.com\/News\/2019\/02\/23\/Manning-former-Herald-publisher-dies-at-89.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died Feb. 21<\/a> at his home in Edenton. Before retiring, Manning worked more than 50 years at the Chowan Herald, most prominently as publisher.<\/p>\n<p>As prosecution of Edenton Seven lurched forward, members of the local \u201cBelieve the Children\u201d cohort grew wary of the news media. Early on, however \u2013 before seeing themselves on \u201cFrontline\u201d &#8212; they had actually sought the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Jack D. Grove, managing editor of the Herald, recalled that short-lived era to journalist David Loomis:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was approached by several influential businessmen who clouded up and rained all over me for putting a [Little Rascals] story on the back page. I said, \u2018Go tell Pete Manning, don\u2019t tell me.\u2019 These businessmen, almost all parents of Little Rascals children, went into a closed-door meeting with Pete. We never again had a story anywhere but on the front page after that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Herald\u2019s front-page coverage was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=879\">painfully passive at best<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9, 2019 Pete Manning, 89, died Feb. 21 at his home in Edenton. Before retiring, Manning worked more than 50 years at the Chowan Herald, most prominently as publisher. As prosecution of Edenton Seven lurched forward, members of the local \u201cBelieve the Children\u201d cohort grew wary of the news media. Early on, however \u2013 [&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-3245","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\/3245","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=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}