{"id":51,"date":"2004-05-15T21:51:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T02:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=51"},"modified":"2004-05-15T21:51:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-16T02:51:30","slug":"ode-to-the-city-slicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2004\/05\/15\/ode-to-the-city-slicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the City Slicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear city dweller:<\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s so very unfortunate that your view of the world is so very small, and so very, very ignorant.  <\/p>\n<p>  -There are places in this world that you can&#8217;t get to by tar roads.<br \/>\n  -A population of 2000 people in one community is not a village or a hamlet, it is a town, not a big town, but a town none the less.<br \/>\n  -A farm is not a zoo if it contains cows, sheep and chickens.  A zoo contains zebras, lions, and other foreign critters.<br \/>\n  -Just because a town lacks a stop light, does not mean it&#8217;s residents are inbreds or rednecks.  That&#8217;s what West Virginia is for.<br \/>\n  -Going shopping may involve travel time than getting in your car and driving a few blocks.<br \/>\n  -Green grass may actually grow in &#8216;downtown&#8217;<br \/>\n  -Having a cookie cutter house that is exactly the same as your neighbor on every side, except for color, is pathetic.<br \/>\n  -A tractor,heaven forbid, may actually cause a traffic jam.<br \/>\n  -Minnesota is bigger than the Twin Cities Metro.&nbsp;<br \/>\n  -And no, it isn&#8217;t just a lake home &#8216;up north&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>  Many people live their whole lives without once feeling unfortunate for having to deal with headaches that come with living a city life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[Listening to: Tales From The Vienna Woods &#8211; Strauss &#8211; Famous Waltzes (12:32)]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear city dweller: It&#8217;s so very unfortunate that your view of the world is so very small, and so very, very ignorant. -There are places in this world that you can&#8217;t get to by tar roads. -A population of 2000 people in one community is not a village or a hamlet, it is a town, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}