{"id":1627,"date":"2013-02-04T08:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2013-02-04T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:56:36","slug":"so-god-made-a-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/so-god-made-a-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"So God made a farmer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in case you missed it on the Super Bowl last night, Dodge built a commercial around the old Paul Harvey essay:\u00a0 &#8220;So God Made a Farmer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this moving recitation is always a reminder of how much we&#8217;ve lost to pay for the &#8220;progress&#8221; we&#8217;ve made.\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson, of course, thought our country could not survive if it moved away from its agrarian roots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sillEgUHGC4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sillEgUHGC4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in case you missed it on the Super Bowl last night, Dodge built a commercial around the old Paul Harvey essay:\u00a0 &#8220;So God Made a Farmer&#8221;. For me, this moving recitation is always a reminder of how much we&#8217;ve lost to pay for the &#8220;progress&#8221; we&#8217;ve made.\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson, of course, thought our country could not survive if it moved away from its agrarian roots. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sillEgUHGC4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}