{"id":735,"date":"2004-11-25T21:37:47","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=735"},"modified":"2004-11-25T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T09:38:26","slug":"one-more-for-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/735","title":{"rendered":"One more for luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Do you know what Thoreau said? Thoreau saw the railroad coming and it gave him the shakes. Not many people had the shakes at that time; plenty of them have got them now, because what we&#8217;ve done is just an extension of the railroad that went past Walden Pond. Thoreau said, &#8220;They think they&#8217;re going to go on with this business of stocks and spades until everybody will ride. But when the whistle blows and the smoke clears away, it will be found that a few are riding and the rest run over.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &mdash; Wendell Berry in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilthproducers.org\/berry1974.htm\">1974 speech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what Thoreau said? Thoreau saw the railroad coming and it gave him the shakes. Not many people had the shakes at that time; plenty of them have got them now, because what we&#8217;ve done is just an extension of the railroad that went past Walden Pond. Thoreau said, &#8220;They think they&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}