{"id":14522,"date":"2016-12-03T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2016-12-03T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:07:54","slug":"advice-from-an-old-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=14522","title":{"rendered":"Advice From An Old Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.<br \/>\nKeep skunks and bankers at a distance.<br \/>\nLife is simpler when you plow around the stump.<br \/>\nA bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.<br \/>\nWords that soak into your ears are whispered\u2026 not yelled.<br \/>\nMeanness don\u2019t jes\u2019 happen overnight.<br \/>\nForgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.<br \/>\nDo not corner something that you know is meaner than you.<br \/>\nIt don\u2019t take a very big person to carry a grudge.<br \/>\nYou cannot unsay a cruel word.<br \/>\nEvery path has a few puddles.<br \/>\nWhen you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.<br \/>\nThe best sermons are lived, not preached.<br \/>\nMost of the stuff people worry about ain\u2019t never gonna happen anyway.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t judge folks by their relatives.<br \/>\nRemember that silence is sometimes the best answer.<br \/>\nLive a good, honorable life\u2026 Then when you get older and think back, you\u2019ll enjoy it a second time.<br \/>\nDon \u2018t interfere with somethin\u2019 that ain\u2019t bothering you none.<br \/>\nTiming has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.<br \/>\nIf you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin\u2019.<br \/>\nSometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.<br \/>\nThe biggest troublemaker you\u2019ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin\u2019.<br \/>\nAlways drink upstream from the herd.<br \/>\nGood judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.<br \/>\nLettin\u2019 the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin\u2019 it back in.<br \/>\nIf you get to thinkin\u2019 you\u2019re a person of some influence, try orderin\u2019 somebody else\u2019s dog around..<br \/>\nLive simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he\u2019ll just kill you.<br \/>\nMost times, it just gets down to common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered\u2026 not yelled. Meanness don\u2019t jes\u2019 happen overnight. Forgive your enemies; it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=14522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advice From An Old Farmer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}