{"id":2518,"date":"2012-07-29T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2012-07-29T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T18:06:15","slug":"dead-soybeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"Dead Soybeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out in the middle of the soybean field by my house there&#8217;s a patch of dead soybeans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2842.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2842-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dead Soybeans\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2842-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2842-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2842.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dead Soybeans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I laid my hoe in there to provide an idea of the size of this spot.  So it&#8217;s about 6 feet across.<\/p>\n<p>What caused this?  A lightning strike!  We had a thunderstorm about a week ago and I saw lightning hit the field.  This is about 100 yards from my house.<\/p>\n<p>I was out hoeing volunteer corn out of the field when I came across this spot.  Working in a field by hand gives you an visceral understanding of just how big an acre is and that a &#8216;long row to hoe&#8217; is not just an idiom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2520\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2843-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A Long Way Home\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2843-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2843-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN2843.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long Way Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the view from the far side of the field.  It was a long way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out in the middle of the soybean field by my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming","category-skunk-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}