{"id":5156,"date":"2014-07-12T21:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T01:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2014-07-12T21:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T01:21:42","slug":"haying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5156","title":{"rendered":"Haying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing prettier than a hay field.  If we treated haying as profit center, just counting dollars out and dollars in, it probably wouldn&#8217;t make sense to do it.  But to smell the hay, to see the green fields, <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140711_175621_313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140711_175621_313-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Hay Field\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140711_175621_313-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140711_175621_313-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140711_175621_313.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hay Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>to hoist each and every bale with your hands, to see it stacked in the barn and to know you did that &#8211; it enriches your soul in a way a dollar can never do.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:10px; padding: 10px; background: #FFFEEB; border: 1px solid black;\">\nFrom <b>Our Town<\/b> by Thornton Wilder.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Gibbs: &#8220;What do you want to do after school&#8217;s over?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George: &#8220;Why you know, Pa. I want to be a farmer on Uncle Luke&#8217;s farm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Gibbs: &#8220;You&#8217;ll be willing, will you, to get up early and milk and feed the stock &#8230; and you&#8217;ll be able to hoe and hay all day?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George: &#8220;Sure I will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about me, but I&#8217;m sure Tom is able to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing prettier than a hay field. <\/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-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","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=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}