{"id":284053,"date":"2018-09-15T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/15\/ani-bester-systlin-unbossed\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T22:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:33:03","slug":"ani-bester-systlin-unbossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/15\/ani-bester-systlin-unbossed\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-284053 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/15\/ani-bester-systlin-unbossed\/attachment\/284054\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tumblr_pes7x0o16M1w7u8nmo1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tumblr_pes7x0o16M1w7u8nmo1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tumblr_pes7x0o16M1w7u8nmo1_500-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ani-bester.tumblr.com\/post\/178025363951\/systlin-unbossed-positive-memes-wholesome\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ani-bester<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/systlin.tumblr.com\/post\/177965965890\/unbossed-positive-memes-wholesome-farmers\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">systlin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unbossed.tumblr.com\/post\/177905917584\/positive-memes-wholesome-farmers-this-reminds-me\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">unbossed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/positive-memes.tumblr.com\/post\/177898479700\/wholesome-farmers\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">positive-memes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wholesome farmers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminds me of the \u201cpenny auctions\u201d of the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/f9840aec819f85510ef8faf6465743cf\/tumblr_peso0rjVGV1rdd873_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m reblogging this again, because I forgot to mention;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My family has lived in Iowa for, oh, a hundred and twenty years? Maybe a hundred and thirty.<\/p>\n<p>My grandpa and grandma and great grandpa and grandma were part of the penny auctions and bullying bankers and mortgage holders into behaving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa was 6\u2032 3\u2033. Great grandpa was an inch shorter. Both were big old farm boys, who could heft an eighty pound hay bale in each hand and toss them up on the hay wagon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grandma told me a few times about how they went around with some of their buddies to\u00a0\u2018explain things\u2019 to mortgage holders during the Depression, and how the farmers would all get together for coffee and settle among everyone in the township how no one was going to bid on the Miller auction but the Millers, and oh, if everyone could chip in fifty cents or so to loan the Millers to buy their land and equipment back at the auction, that\u2019d be the Right Thing To Do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is still a point of pride for many farming families around here, decades later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201csems to be there was a tea party in Boston that was illegal too,\u201d is something I need on a shirt everytime I protest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ani-bester: systlin: unbossed: positive-memes: Wholesome farmers This reminds me of the \u201cpenny auctions\u201d of the Great Depression. I\u2019m reblogging this again, because I forgot to mention;\u00a0 My family has lived in Iowa for, oh, a hundred and twenty years? Maybe a hundred and thirty. My grandpa and grandma and great grandpa and grandma were part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/15\/ani-bester-systlin-unbossed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15874,20635,4383,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284055,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284053\/revisions\/284055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}