{"id":159,"date":"2019-07-02T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=159"},"modified":"2019-11-13T23:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T23:16:25","slug":"carteret","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/carteret\/","title":{"rendered":"Carteret County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Located on North Carolina&#8217;s Crystal Coast, Carteret County has a population of 68,881 and a total employment of 22,987 (33.4%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county seat is Beaufort, approximately 155 miles from Raleigh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established as a county in 1739 and named for the family of Sir George Carteret, it was once the home of infamous English pirate Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is grains, and the largest agricultural product by acreage is soybeans. The type of livestock produced most by total number is egg-laying chickens. The largest manufacturer is Bally Refrigerated Boxes (the county&#8217;s 10th-largest employer), which manufactures industrial cooling and refrigeration systems, and employs between 100 and 249 people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-159","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/159\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}