We are slaves to insurance and retirement portfolios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We work harder to spend more money on intangibles—something that ‘might happen’, and someday that ‘might come’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pioneers didn’t have these—they didn’t even think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They worked hard to eat, and to buy things to use immediately to sustain life, and possibly make life better now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Someday’ did not rob them of time for family, today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are slaves to insurance and retirement portfolios. We work harder to spend more money on intangibles—something that ‘might happen’, and someday that ‘might come’. – – – Pioneers didn’t have these—they didn’t even think about it. They worked hard to eat, and to buy things to use immediately to sustain life, and possibly make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176"}],"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=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}