{"id":33899,"date":"2021-07-10T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T01:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33899"},"modified":"2021-07-10T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T01:10:48","slug":"making-biscuits-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33899","title":{"rendered":"Making Biscuits 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Making_Biscuits_1938-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Making Biscuits 1938\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Making_Biscuits_1938-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Making_Biscuits_1938.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The poster of this wrote:<br \/>\nA young girl making biscuits in 1938. Look at this picture. We really think we have it bad in today&#8217;s world. This is the generation that did make America great. Tough as nails. Worked hard. Made the changes necessary to work their own way out of poverty. There was no welfare, food stamps, public housing. They had to pull themselves out of their own situations.<\/p>\n<p>(Tom:)<br \/>\nYes, in Australia and other countries too!<br \/>\nHard times create tough people.<br \/>\nTough people create easy times.<br \/>\nEasy times create soft people.<br \/>\nSoft people create hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Harden up people!<br \/>\nResolve to then do the following.<br \/>\nRaise your confront!<br \/>\nRaise your communication level!<br \/>\nRaise your ethic level!<br \/>\nRaise your competence!<br \/>\nRaise your production!<\/p>\n<p>Only a high confront individual with their ethics in, being highly competent and productive and demanding the same of others is a solid building block of first a family unit and thereafter, society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poster of this wrote: A young girl making biscuits in 1938. Look at this picture. We really think we have it bad in today&#8217;s world. This is the generation that did make America great. Tough as nails. Worked hard. Made the changes necessary to work their own way out of poverty. There was no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Biscuits 1938&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33899","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=33899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33901,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33899\/revisions\/33901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}