{"id":412,"date":"2007-12-02T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/02\/thank-you-ruth-thomas\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T17:02:48","slug":"thank-you-ruth-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/02\/thank-you-ruth-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Ruth Thomas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/ruth.jpg' title='ruth.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/ruth.jpg' alt='ruth.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruth Thomas chats with Jeff Koob at the Free Speech Pay-In outside the courthouse in Columbia in 2004.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s paper featured a front-page profile on Ruth Thomas, the 87-year-old activist and founder of Environmentalists Inc. She has been a longtime member of the Network, and it&#8217;s great to see her get the recognition she deserves. <\/p>\n<p>She calls our office about once a month, and I know it will be a longish conversation with her talking way over my head about some environmental crisis or other (this state has so many it&#8217;s hard to keep up with it all). She is passionate, very bright, and a force to be reckoned with, as so many hired suits have discovered in hearings over the years.<\/p>\n<p>If ever there were one, Ruth is an argument for cloning. If we had more of her, imagine what we could accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>Be inspired; read Sammy Fretwell&#8217;s story in today&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/local\/story\/245779.html\">The State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Becci Robbins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Thomas chats with Jeff Koob at the Free Speech Pay-In outside the courthouse in Columbia in 2004. Today&#8217;s paper featured a front-page profile on Ruth Thomas, the 87-year-old activist and founder of Environmentalists Inc. She has been a longtime &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/02\/thank-you-ruth-thomas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}