{"id":223,"date":"2019-08-05T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=223"},"modified":"2019-11-15T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T20:57:12","slug":"moore","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Located in the Sandhills south of Raleigh, Moore County has a population of 97,264 and a total employment of 35,062 (36.0%). It was established on July 4, 1784.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county seat is Carthage, but its best known villages are Pinehurst and Southern Pines, homes to two of North Carolina&#8217;s twin sporting\/tourism industries, golf and equestrian events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is poultry\/eggs, while the largest product by acreage is forage land (for grain production). The type of livestock produced most by total number is meat-type chickens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest manufacturer is Ingersoll Rand Company (the county&#8217;s 15th-largest employer), which manufactures industrial and commercial heavy machinery and employs between 100 and 249 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The county is served by Sandhills Community College, chartered in 1963 and opened on Oct. 1, 1965, as part of the 58-campus North Carolina Community College System. It has 4,000 regularly enrolled students seeking associate degrees in 34 applied science programs and about 11,000 students taking continuing education classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-223","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/223","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":21,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/223\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}