{"id":1539,"date":"2016-04-29T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2016-04-29T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:47:31","slug":"truman-lincoln-small-farms-free-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Truman, Lincoln… small farms; free college?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just reading today in Harry Truman’s Where The Buck Stops<\/em> book about his reflections on President Lincoln.\u00a0 Truman noted that Lincoln, as a youth, not only worked on his parent’s family farm, but he was also hired out to work on other small farms in the area to bring in additional income for his family.\u00a0 What’s more, Lincoln was primarily self taught in his early years and would walk almost 20 miles to Springfield to get law books to study.\u00a0 Conversely, I was talking to a family farmer this morning in Bluffton who was lamenting about the demise of the small family farm where kids learned the value of work.\u00a0 He said, for instance, that current presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign promise of a free college education seems a natural extension of all this.\u00a0 That is, many modern youth — because practically everything<\/em> is handed to them at home these days — indeed feel entitled<\/em> to a free secondary education as well.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Our agricultural platform<\/a> calls for a strong return of the small family farm.\u00a0 So strong, in fact, that the country evolves back into an agrarian based one, with these small farms again being the backbone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just reading today in Harry Truman’s Where The Buck Stops book about his reflections on President Lincoln.\u00a0 Truman noted that Lincoln, as a youth, not only worked on his parent’s family farm, but he was also hired out …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}