{"id":3679,"date":"2014-08-11T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2014-08-11T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:46:06","slug":"mama-dont-let-kids-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/mama-dont-let-kids-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama&#8230;don&#8217;t let your kids grow up&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.to be farmers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a no-win game despite all the publicity about the Locavore movement, farm-to-fork, food hubs, CSAs. \u00a0&#8220;blah-blah&#8221; stuff.\u00a0 The dirty little secret is the Big Guys are killing us&#8230;.and they&#8217;re the\u00a0ones getting the subsidies and grants that enable them to further squash the idealists.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times had the story this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/dont-let-your-children-grow-up-to-be-farmers.html?_r=1\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/dont-let-your-children-grow-up-to-be-farmers.html?_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dr. Sue Beal for the link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.to be farmers. It&#8217;s still a no-win game despite all the publicity about the Locavore movement, farm-to-fork, food hubs, CSAs. \u00a0&#8220;blah-blah&#8221; stuff.\u00a0 The dirty little secret is the Big Guys are killing us&#8230;.and they&#8217;re the\u00a0ones getting the subsidies and grants that enable them to further squash the idealists. The New York Times had the story this past weekend. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/dont-let-your-children-grow-up-to-be-farmers.html?_r=1 Thanks to Dr. Sue Beal for the link. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,53,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-marketing","category-on-the-soap-box"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}