{"id":702,"date":"2012-05-01T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2012-05-01T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:20:57","slug":"the-father-of-the-real-food-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-father-of-the-real-food-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The father of the “real food” movement…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Wendell Berry truly is a legend in his own time.\u00a0 This Kentucky farmer, writer and philospher\u00a0has been thinking and writing about our land…and our food…longer than anyone I know.\u00a0 It’s easy to be misled by his gentle nature, as this New York Times writer was, but Berry is a fighter who pulls no punches when the occasion demands.<\/p>\n

But first, the introductory article:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2012\/04\/25-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Before you leave the article, click on the “good reads” link for a compendium of Berry’s writing.\u00a0 Or just click here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/quotes\/8567.Wendell_Berry<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a quote\u00a0to give you the flavor.\u00a0 Again, I recommend you read the several pages of excerpts from his writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wendell Berry truly is a legend in his own time.\u00a0 This Kentucky farmer, writer and philospher\u00a0has been thinking and writing about our land…and our food…longer than anyone I know.\u00a0 It’s easy to be misled by his gentle nature, as this New York Times writer was, but Berry is a fighter who pulls no punches when the occasion demands. But first, the introductory article: http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2012\/04\/25-1 Before you leave the article, click on the “good reads” link for a compendium of Berry’s writing.\u00a0 Or just click here: http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/quotes\/8567.Wendell_Berry Here’s a quote\u00a0to give you the flavor.\u00a0 Again, I recommend you read the several pages of excerpts from his writing. \u201cWhether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.\u201d\u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}