{"id":5912,"date":"2012-02-21T07:19:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2012-02-21T07:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:19:26","slug":"farm-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/musings\/farm-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look at <a href=\"http:\/\/durhamtownship.com\/blog-archives\/003638.html\">these pictures<\/a> and they pluck a string of intense familiarity in me. It makes me sad, in some ways, that I won&#8217;t be raising my family on a farm. I got just a taste of it as a kid and turned out to be more of a city gal, so I guess if I had stuck around (and my own family hadn&#8217;t majorly downsized our farming efforts due to a variety of reasons, many of them economic) I would have been the one to insist that Triple T Farms have a website and get on Facebook. Maybe I would have had to slop hogs too. But there is something so honest about farming. Something so real about it. It&#8217;s not all flash and pretense, branding and focus groups. It&#8217;s just dirt under your fingernails and long, hot days, and the smell of diesel following you everywhere you go. A challenge to make the land do your bidding but to be its steward and protector too. It&#8217;s intense. It&#8217;s humble. <\/p>\n<p>I miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look at these pictures and they pluck a string of intense familiarity in me. It makes me sad, in some ways, that I won&#8217;t be raising my family on a farm. I got just a taste of it as a kid and turned out to be more of a city gal, so I guess if I had stuck around (and my own family hadn&#8217;t majorly downsized our farming efforts due to a variety of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1xm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}