{"id":156869,"date":"2026-09-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/02\/opinion-gary-smith-a-little-bit-slow-to-catch-on-wasnt-just-the-name-of-a-dolly-parton-song-northwest-arkansas-democrat-gazette-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:00:00","slug":"opinion-gary-smith-a-little-bit-slow-to-catch-on-wasnt-just-the-name-of-a-dolly-parton-song-northwest-arkansas-democrat-gazette-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/02\/opinion-gary-smith-a-little-bit-slow-to-catch-on-wasnt-just-the-name-of-a-dolly-parton-song-northwest-arkansas-democrat-gazette-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION | GARY SMITH: \u201cA Little Bit Slow to Catch On\u201d wasn\u2019t just the name of a Dolly Parton song &#8211; Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxPTHFoMDkwTFdVTWxqTUJ2TGYzN3VxWDB5b2d3X3A2TFlNRTM5Y0w1bWxTbVB3WHlRMjB0OTM4bDlNWU5vM0wtSzRmcUQ2SDNmVXJ5Tzc0Qmw2Q1I0Z2lyZ28tYjh4TkQ4ZjFwOGxSekVxTlhZeHhIOHpjb2tBQUJudXpmQ1UyX0Z3aV9wSmRyNE91OFB1OG14bw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">OPINION | GARY SMITH: \u201cA Little Bit Slow to Catch On\u201d wasn\u2019t just the name of a Dolly Parton song<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION | GARY SMITH: \u201cA Little Bit Slow to Catch On\u201d wasn\u2019t just the name of a Dolly Parton song&nbsp;&nbsp;Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}