{"id":6015,"date":"2015-06-13T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2015-06-13T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:30:43","slug":"you-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6015","title":{"rendered":"You Never Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were out shooting a tile line today that crossed properties owned by 3 different people. Everyone whose land the tile is on is agreeing to fix it <a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Our tile contractor brings his dog along on the these jobs.  Another farmer whose land this tile crosses and I were helping shoot the tile line, mainly by watching the dog <a href=\"#2\">[2]<\/a> run around and griping about the weather.<\/p>\n<p>And then my neighbor said, &#8220;We had to have our dog put down last night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aw, geez, I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>And he told me about their dog, how he was old and sick, and they&#8217;d been to vet and then late last night to the emergency vet clinic.  And that the dog was a rescue and they&#8217;d had him for 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>Then he blinked and looked over the fields and said, &#8220;It&#8217;s sad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our families have farmed side by side for over 60 years that I know of, and I realized I hardly knew him, and I wished that I knew him better.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid grey; margin-bottom:5px\"><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"1\">1. <\/a> Other neighbors whose land drains into this tile, but the tile doesn&#8217;t actually cross their land, are choosing not help repair it.   So the 3 of us will pay 5 figures each to fix it, and they&#8217;ll get a free ride.  What you gonna do?<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\">2. <\/a>Leon. A Springer Spaniel.  He&#8217;s a Good Dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were out shooting a tile line today that crossed [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","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=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}