{"id":335,"date":"2007-07-04T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/index.php\/2007\/07\/04\/what-makes-america-great\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T16:28:56","slug":"what-makes-america-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/07\/what-makes-america-great\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes America Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s Democrat-Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n

The site currently under construction isn’t a replica of the original building, but a ‘faithful facsimile.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Tommy Jameson, project architect for Little Rock’s new Mosaic Templars black history museum.<\/p>\n

I’m not trying to advocate more drinking. I’m trying to get more tax revenue for our county.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Richard Hodo, owner of Van Buren’s Sisters Gourmet Bistro, which has applied for a private club permit from the state. The Crawford County retired insurance agent goes on to say, “I would hate to see us lose our ‘historic district’ certification. We’ve got to do something to revive downtown.”<\/p>\n

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From today’s Democrat-Gazette The site currently under construction isn’t a replica of the original building, but a ‘faithful facsimile.’” — Tommy Jameson, project architect for Little Rock’s new Mosaic Templars black history museum. I’m not trying to advocate more drinking. I’m trying to get more tax revenue for our county.” — Richard Hodo, owner of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-of-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":346,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/08\/stox-and-bondz\/","url_meta":{"origin":335,"position":0},"title":"Stox and Bondz","author":"Ben S. 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