{"id":4191,"date":"2010-10-05T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2010-10-05T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:33:36","slug":"repost-firefighters-watch-a-house-burn-down-over-fees-patheticthink-progress-tennessee-countys-subscription-based-firefighters-watch-as-family-home-burns-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/repost-firefighters-watch-a-house-burn-down-over-fees-patheticthink-progress-tennessee-countys-subscription-based-firefighters-watch-as-family-home-burns-down\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: Firefighters watch a house burn down over fees&#8230; pathetic::Think Progress \u00bb Tennessee County\u2019s Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The conservative vision was on full display last week in Obion County, Tennessee. In this rural section of Tennessee, Gene Cranick\u2019s home caught on fire. As the Cranicks fled their home, their neighbors alerted the county\u2019s firefighters, who soon arrived at the scene. Yet when the firefighters arrived, they refused to put out the fire, saying that the family failed to pay the annual subscription fee to the fire department. Because the county\u2019s fire services for rural residences is based on household subscription fees, the firefighters, fully equipped to help the Cranicks, stood by and watched as the home burned to the ground:<br \/>\nImagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won\u2019t respond, then watches it burn. That\u2019s exactly what happened to a local family tonight. A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/04\/county-firefighters-subscription\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Tennessee County\u2019s Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative vision was on full display last week in Obion County, Tennessee. In this rural section of Tennessee, Gene Cranick\u2019s home caught on fire. As the Cranicks fled their home, their neighbors alerted the county\u2019s firefighters, who soon arrived at the scene. Yet when the firefighters arrived, they refused to put out the fire, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/repost-firefighters-watch-a-house-burn-down-over-fees-patheticthink-progress-tennessee-countys-subscription-based-firefighters-watch-as-family-home-burns-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: Firefighters watch a house burn down over fees&#8230; pathetic::Think Progress \u00bb Tennessee County\u2019s Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[66,79,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-reposts","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}