{"id":8844,"date":"2014-06-09T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8844"},"modified":"2014-06-09T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T17:11:49","slug":"quickhits-692014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/09\/quickhits-692014\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickHits! (6\/9\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QuickHits now, RandomThoughts later today!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a fast look at some links to articles that have caught my eye.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godanriver.com\/news\/coal-ash\/how-dangerous-is-coal-ash-well-that-depends\/article_eb83def6-ef77-11e3-a809-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\">How dangerous is coal ash<\/a>? Obviously not that dangerous for two reasons. First, <a title=\"Happy Trails, Coal Ash Spill!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/26\/happy-trails-coal-ash-spill\/\" target=\"_blank\">all of the environmentalists&#8217; horror predictions never came close to being true<\/a>. Second, none of the Danville Register &amp; Bee reporters are writing anything about it anymore. It seems that it&#8217;s all been farmed out to the Greensboro News &amp; Record reporters now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yourgv.com\/index.php\/lifestyle\/arts-and-entertainment\/10507-great-crowd-greets-friday-night-jams\" target=\"_blank\">Everybody must have thought that the band was radioactive at Halifax&#8217;s Friday Night Jams<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caswellmessenger.com\/news\/article_7c134040-eb7e-11e3-bf4b-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve got an election controversy in Caswell County<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yourgv.com\/index.php\/news\/local-news\/10496-business-owners-to-question-demotion\" target=\"_blank\">Apparently Frank Coleman isn&#8217;t called into action until the race card needs to be played<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s some QuickHits! More coming up on SouthsideCentral.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QuickHits now, RandomThoughts later today!<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,58,62,63,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caswell-county-nc","category-danville","category-halifax","category-halifax-county","category-newscentral","category-quickhits","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2iE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9008,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/23\/quickhits-6232014\/","url_meta":{"origin":8844,"position":0},"title":"QuickHits! 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