{"id":967,"date":"2008-11-01T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=967"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:44","slug":"my-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"My past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_5.JPG\" border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>This picture is from the NC State Fair a few weeks ago. Something from my past I am grateful is in the past, never to return!!!<br \/>(For those younger folks, these are tobacco sticks used to string tobacco onto, which then was put into a barn &#038; cured)<br \/>I will confess as kids we welded them as swords &#038; weapons now and again, and I did my share of welding&#8211;oh my:(<\/p>\n<p>I have a birdhouse made from these sticks that my cousin John Lee crafted. Now that&#8217;s a great use for such a practical item:)<\/p>\n<p>You never know what memories a few sticks can conjure up!)<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;This picture is from the NC State Fair a few weeks ago. Something from my past I am grateful is in the past, never to return!!!(For those younger folks, these are tobacco sticks used to string tobacco onto, which then was put into a barn &#038; cured)I will confess as kids we welded them as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}