{"id":26130,"date":"2011-03-04T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=26130"},"modified":"2011-03-03T22:23:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:23:41","slug":"hillbilly-the-real-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/26130","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hillbilly: The Real Story&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Hooch_HB.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Hillbillies, long misunderstood and maligned as isolated and backward, actually have a 300-year history of achievement and success that has contributed significantly to our national identity.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I caught this doc last year on the History channel.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hillbilly: The Real Story <\/em>(2008) &#8211; hosted by Billy Ray Cyrus &#8211; is a great overview of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachian_American\">&#8216;Appalachian American&#8217;<\/a><\/em> subculture that brought us moonshine whiskey, labor unions, NASCAR and country music.<\/p>\n<p>Stream <em>Hillbilly<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/ganjavideo.com\/hillbilly-the-real-story-2008_24030.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> DVD <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/hI7hx9\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured up top: An original &#8216;painter&#8217;s piss&#8217; runner, found via <a href=\"http:\/\/thethrottle.com\/2010\/12\/28\/moonshiners-the-original-nascar-racers-19-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">theTHROTTLE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>related<\/strong><br \/>\nAlso, <em>Hillbilly<\/em> does a pretty good job of setting the stage for Oscar nominated Ozark kin drama <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bE_X2pDRXyY\"target=\"_blank\">Winter&#8217;s Bone<\/a><\/em> (2010). Incredible performance by Jennifer Lawrence, below. Review <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/11\/movies\/11winter.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bE_X2pDRXyY\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Hooch_HB2.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"'Hillbilly: The Real Story'\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/26130\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hillbillies, long misunderstood and maligned as isolated and backward, actually have a 300-year history of achievement and success that has contributed significantly to our national identity.&#8217; I caught this doc last year on the History channel. Hillbilly: The Real Story (2008) &#8211; hosted by Billy Ray Cyrus &#8211; is a great overview of the &#8216;Appalachian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,49],"tags":[26,126],"class_list":["post-26130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-education","tag-cinema","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26130"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26207,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130\/revisions\/26207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}