{"id":4916,"date":"2014-03-31T20:04:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2014-03-31T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:04:54","slug":"sharpening-the-blunted-plowshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4916","title":{"rendered":"Sharpening the Blunted Plowshare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left:20px;font-style:italic\">\nWhenever wintry rain confines the farmer<br \/>\nMuch he can do betimes that otherwise<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll have to hurry when the skies have cleared.<br \/>\nPloughmen beat sharp the blunted ploughshare point;\n<\/div>\n<p>Virgil wrote that in the Georgics in 29 BC.  That&#8217;s still good advice today.  We&#8217;re working on things so we won&#8217;t have to hurry whenever it finally warms up this year.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t plow, so we don&#8217;t have any blunted plowshare points to sharpen, so instead I updated the firmware in our planter monitor today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4917\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140331_102152_902.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140331_102152_902-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Updating\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140331_102152_902-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140331_102152_902-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Updating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It took about half an hour to complete the updates.  I&#8217;m glad I listened to Virgil and didn&#8217;t wait until the day we were ready to plant to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Virgil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","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=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}