{"id":1988,"date":"2019-03-11T11:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:28:15","slug":"small-town-power-struggles-and-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2019\/03\/11\/small-town-power-struggles-and-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town Power Struggles and Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/1503901505-01-_sx450_sy635_sclzzzzzzz_-2\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1990\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2019\/03\/1503901505.01._SX450_SY635_SCLZZZZZZZ_-1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2019\/03\/1503901505.01._SX450_SY635_SCLZZZZZZZ_-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2019\/03\/1503901505.01._SX450_SY635_SCLZZZZZZZ_-1.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>Zoo Nebraska is a remarkable, true story about small town dreams and tragedy. \u00a0Carson Vaughan tells the story of how one man\u2019s childhood dream of working with primates in Rwanda turned instead into building a zoo in Royal, Nebraska. \u00a0Soon the whole town of Royal was involved in promoting and maintaining this zoo. This was a great tourist attraction and a boon for Royal\u2019s economy. Unfortunately the logistics, labor and cost of maintaining this zoo turned into a nightmare, and the nightmare eventually turned into a tragedy. The author interviewed each person involved and tells the story from different perspectives. Sargent residents will be able to relate to the small town power struggles and how this tragedy could have easily happened in any similar small town.<\/p>\n<p>Carson Vaughan is from Broken Bow, Nebraska.\u00a0 So come check out a local author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoo Nebraska is a remarkable, true story about small town dreams and tragedy. \u00a0Carson Vaughan tells the story of how one man\u2019s childhood dream of working with primates in Rwanda turned instead into building a zoo in Royal, Nebraska. \u00a0Soon <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2019\/03\/11\/small-town-power-struggles-and-tragedy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Small Town Power Struggles and Tragedy<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5uT5W-w4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}