{"id":6598,"date":"2017-09-30T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2017-09-30T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T00:28:08","slug":"a-good-time-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6598","title":{"rendered":"A Good Time to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I quit day to day farming at the end of harvest last year and handed my part over to my nephew Tom.  The farm magazines keep coming though.  I don&#8217;t generally read them, but John Phipps who writes for the Farm Journal magazines is one of my favorite commentators.  So today when a Top Producer<a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a> magazine (a Farm Journal publication) showed up in our mailbox I flipped it open to the back page where John&#8217;s column runs.<\/p>\n<p>And this was John&#8217;s column <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/good-time-to-quit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/good-time-to-quit-thumbnail.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;ll be available in text format in a few weeks, click the image above to read the scanned in magazine page in the meantime.)<\/p>\n<p>I love you, Tom, but I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid grey; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"1\">1. <\/a> I in general despise Top Producer.  It&#8217;s all about glamorizing big farmers.  I usually read it just to get outraged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I quit day to day farming at the end of [&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-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","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=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}