{"id":19,"date":"2012-02-27T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2012-02-27T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:37:22","slug":"pioneer-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have often said that I would fit better in the pioneer days of America.\u00a0 When I share that with people, they usually acknowledge the thought and then add, \u201cBut they had to deal with life and death on a daily basis.\u201d\u00a0 It was some time before I came up with the response that puts into focus the two different eras.\u00a0 \u201cYes, the pioneers had to deal with life and death on a daily basis; and so do we&#8212;plus a lot of garbage they did not have to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often said that I would fit better in the pioneer days of America.\u00a0 When I share that with people, they usually acknowledge the thought and then add, \u201cBut they had to deal with life and death on a daily basis.\u201d\u00a0 It was some time before I came up with the response that puts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}