{"id":4852,"date":"2016-05-02T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2016-05-02T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:55:12","slug":"become-ritual-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/become-ritual-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s become a ritual for the past year&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.to end our work-day with a glass of wine and the latest episode of a lovely British t-v\u00a0series &#8220;Lark Rise to Candleford&#8221;.\u00a0 The show is a lovely profile of an English hamlet and village in Oxfordshire at the close of the 19th century.\u00a0 Change is coming&#8230;.&#8221;progress&#8221;&#8230;.and it evokes mixed emotions from the residents, who see an idyllic life coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The other day one of the visitors to the rural area said &#8220;it takes courage to change&#8221; only to be corrected by a hamlet folk who said &#8220;sometimes it takes courage to stand still&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We were reminded of that by this story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/tiny-nebraska-town-1100-jobs-citing-life-38807185\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/tiny-nebraska-town-1100-jobs-citing-life-38807185<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.to end our work-day with a glass of wine and the latest episode of a lovely British t-v\u00a0series &#8220;Lark Rise to Candleford&#8221;.\u00a0 The show is a lovely profile of an English hamlet and village in Oxfordshire at the close of the 19th century.\u00a0 Change is coming&#8230;.&#8221;progress&#8221;&#8230;.and it evokes mixed emotions from the residents, who see an idyllic life coming to an end. The other day one of the visitors to the rural area said &#8220;it takes courage to change&#8221; only to be corrected by a hamlet folk who said &#8220;sometimes it takes courage to stand still&#8221;. We were reminded of that by this story: http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/tiny-nebraska-town-1100-jobs-citing-life-38807185<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","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=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4856,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}