{"id":62148,"date":"2017-02-14T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62148"},"modified":"2017-02-14T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:21:49","slug":"like-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62148","title":{"rendered":"Like Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I&#8217;d go into the local bakery, whrere area farmers would be sitting and talking. \u00a0When they talked, there were two subjects:<\/p>\n<p><strong>If it was raining out<\/strong>: \u00a0complaining that it was too wet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If it wasn&#8217;t raining about<\/strong>: \u00a0complaining about how dry it was.<\/p>\n<p>Over this past few months, watching California go from being a parched wasteland to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/02\/12\/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago\/\">a potentially flooded wasteland<\/a>,, and hearing Californians complaining about it, I&#8217;ve thought:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>Hey! \u00a0Just like North Dakota farmers!<\/li>\n<li>And you expected what, building a society in an almost uninhabitable desert, prone to almost nothing\u00a0<em>but\u00a0<\/em>extremes?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Dear Cali: \u00a0hope your dam doesn&#8217;t break. \u00a0If you hurry up and secede from the union, you might just be able to recover from a dam break without all that pesky help from a federal government you hate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I&#8217;d go into the local bakery, whrere area farmers would be sitting and talking. \u00a0When they talked, there were two subjects: If it was raining out: \u00a0complaining that it was too wet. If it wasn&#8217;t raining about: \u00a0complaining about how dry it was. Over this past few months, watching California [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62149,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62148\/revisions\/62149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}