{"id":346860,"date":"2018-02-05T06:34:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/postcard-from-the-end-of-america\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T06:34:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:34:39","slug":"postcard-from-the-end-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/postcard-from-the-end-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard From the End of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>When out-of-town friends visit, I like to take them to <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/postcard-from-end-of-america-camden.html\">Camden<\/a>. With its high crime, horrible government and general wretchedness, it\u2019s the worst of America\u2019s present and, if all goes according to plans, our stereotypical future. Soon as you cross into Collingswood or Gloucester, however, the graffiti, trash, abandoned houses, sagging pants and neck tattoos disappear. In fact, South Jersey is dotted with quaint boroughs featuring relatively active Main Streets.<\/p>\n<p>Just three miles from Camden, Palmyra has two old timey barber shops, a homey Sicilian restaurant, a spacious, porch-fronted bar surrounded by grass, and a most creative <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/live-love-donuts-palmyra.html\">donut shop<\/a> that dreams up treats resembling a Thanksgiving turkey, a mound of dirt with a glow worm or a shark fin sticking out of blue water, etc. With one tenth the population of Camden, Palmyra has a much better stocked <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/cheese-steak-3-99-palmyra-by-linhdinh99.html\">supermarket<\/a>. Outside a hardware store, a <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/hardware-store-palmyra-by-linhdinh99-on.html\">horse<\/a> statue stands in front of a buggy. As is common to any blue-collar town, the Stars Spangled Banner is found all over, including at the Mexican-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/xaviers-garage-palmyra.html\">garage<\/a> and Indian-owned convenience store. A small artillery piece sits on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in Camden, no Palmyra store owner needs to stare at customers from behind bullet-proof plexiglass. Last year, there was no murder or rape. Filthy <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/amanda-shooting-up-on-9-12-16-camden-10.html\">junkies<\/a> with rotting teeth don\u2019t prostitute themselves even in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Predominantly white, Palmyra has the distinction of appointing in 1959 the first black police chief in the entire country, and its high school library is named after Clarence B. Jones, an alumnus who became Martin Luther King\u2019s principal lawyer and the co-writer of his most famous speech, \u201cI Have a Dream.\u201d Making up 14% of Palmyra\u2019s population, blacks coexist without tension with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/linh-dinh\/postcard-from-the-end-of-america-palmyra-nj\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When out-of-town friends visit, I like to take them to Camden. With its high crime, horrible government and general wretchedness, it\u2019s the worst of America\u2019s present and, if all goes according to plans, our stereotypical future. Soon as you cross into Collingswood or Gloucester, however, the graffiti, trash, abandoned houses, sagging pants and neck tattoos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}