{"id":4996,"date":"2022-08-17T09:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T21:14:51","slug":"pioneers-and-us-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4996","title":{"rendered":"PIONEERS &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; AND US (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hopefully this will be a series of short samples comparing life in pioneer days with life nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This started for me years ago when I told my friends I would fit better in pioneer days&#8212;my values, work ethic, frugality, faith, would work there (like Homestead Farm in Elm Mott, TX today)&#8212;except for some basic survival skills like butchering animals, skills that didn&#8217;t get passed on to me from previous generations that got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, my friends responded with, &#8220;Yeah, but the pioneers had to deal with life and death on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was actually a few years before I had this response, &#8220;Yes, 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not take long to think of several examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully this will be a series of short samples comparing life in pioneer days with life nowadays. This started for me years ago when I told my friends I would fit better in pioneer days&#8212;my values, work ethic, frugality, faith, would work there (like Homestead Farm in Elm Mott, TX today)&#8212;except for some basic survival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996"}],"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=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}