{"id":18776,"date":"2019-08-19T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2019-08-19T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:30:00","slug":"life-island-times-great-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-great-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Great Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s piece on road-earth revelations these words about the Great Plains folks I met along the way surfaced.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/LIT_great_Plains.jpg\" alt=\"LIT_great_Plains\" width=\"639\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/LIT_great_Plains.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/LIT_great_Plains-600x384.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/LIT_great_Plains-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/LIT_great_Plains-439x281.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a strong, lonely place of dreamers<br \/>\nThe plains weren\u2019t kindly to tyrants or schemers<br \/>\nThere were no fake patriotic wreaths<br \/>\nDesperation wasn\u2019t part of the air they breathed<\/p>\n<p>At meal tables was equality for them and me<br \/>\nIn that dried out, dusty &#8220;homeland of the free&#8221;<br \/>\nNone grumbled in the dark<br \/>\nNone drew a veil across the stars<\/p>\n<p>Some were fools whom life had pushed and pulled apart<br \/>\nSome talked of hurt and life\u2019s deeply felt scars<br \/>\nI as the immigrant sat quietly listening as they spoke<br \/>\nOf dog eat dog, of the wealthy making their work a joke<\/p>\n<p>Just people, humble, hungry, and lean<br \/>\nWhom life had treated mean<br \/>\nMen who never got ahead across the years<br \/>\nOn this new old land, once again filled with pioneers<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2109 My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s piece on road-earth revelations these words about the Great Plains folks I met along the way surfaced. It was a strong, lonely place of dreamers The plains weren\u2019t kindly to tyrants or schemers There were no fake patriotic wreaths Desperation wasn\u2019t part of the air they breathed At meal tables was equality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18779,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions\/18779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}