{"id":6005,"date":"2015-08-21T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2022-01-26T21:27:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:27:33","slug":"bill-green-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/21\/bill-green-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Green answers WCCO &#8216;Good Question&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/WCCO.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"106\" \/>History Professor <strong>Bill Green<\/strong>\u00a0spoke with WCCO-TV about why Minnesotans are quick to defend their state&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Washington Post article identified Red Lake County, Minn., as the &#8220;absolute worst place to live in America,&#8221; and Minnesotans immediately sought to set the record straight. In\u00a0the\u00a0news station\u2019s Good Question segment, Green\u00a0explained that\u00a0part of the reason why Minnesotans reacted strongly to the article is because of the major investment they make in ensuring that the state offers a favorable\u00a0quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work hard to have good government, we work hard to create a society that attempts to include everyone,\u201d he said. \u201cWe work hard to invest resources into making this place look beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2015\/08\/20\/good-question-why-are-minnesotans-so-proud-of-their-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Question: Why Are Minnesotans So Proud Of Their\u00a0State?<\/a>\u201d to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Professor Bill Green\u00a0spoke with WCCO-TV about why Minnesotans are quick to defend their state&#8217;s image. A recent Washington Post article identified Red Lake County, Minn., as the &#8220;absolute worst place to live in America,&#8221; and Minnesotans immediately sought to set the record straight. In\u00a0the\u00a0news station\u2019s Good Question segment, Green\u00a0explained that\u00a0part of the reason why &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[379,1276,3087,3088],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-bill-green","tag-history","tag-wcco","tag-wcco-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10784,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions\/10784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}