{"id":1070,"date":"2010-08-27T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=510"},"modified":"2010-08-27T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:48:17","slug":"hell-with-the-fire-burned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Hell, with the fire burned out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stopped in rural Wasta, South Dakota, where we spent the day at the <strong>Trax Ranch<\/strong>. \u00a0 \u00a0<em> \u00a0 <\/em>Pat Trax, with a group of other local ranchers, are fighting monopolies by four major Packing Companies &#8220;who control 80% of the slaughter industry,&#8221; said Pat. \u00a0 He \u00a0told me \u00a0the Obama administration is \u00a0&#8220;right minded&#8221; \u00a0in some areas in respect to fighting this type of monopolistic control. \u00a0 And he said the administration has been fairly good in general \u00a0about helping the small family ranchers and farmers&#8230; \u00a0 While in Wasta, I also interviewed Ray Olsen, who had been on his ranch for three generations. \u00a0 His grandparents had come from Norway and established the beginnings of the ranch here in 1889 (you can still see \u00a0wagon ruts nearby from the \u00a0early settlers heading across). \u00a0 The family originally homesteaded here on 160 acres, under the Homestead Act signed by President Lincoln. \u00a0 Olsen added his would be the last generation on the land because, in part, it was becoming too hard for small ranchers to make a living off the land&#8230; \u00a0 We then headed further east, just skirting the &#8220;Badlands&#8221; of South Dakota. \u00a0 It is writtten the topography here is like: \u00a0 <em>&#8220;Hell, with the fire burned out.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stopped in rural Wasta, South Dakota, where we spent the day at the Trax Ranch. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Pat Trax, with a group of other local ranchers, are fighting monopolies by four major Packing Companies &#8220;who control 80% of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1070\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}