{"id":9429,"date":"2021-06-16T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:13:43","slug":"episode-370-one-day-in-june-2021-june-16-freeman-skeoch-farm-wellington-county-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9429","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 370: ONE DAY IN JUNE 2021 (JUNE 16) FREEMAN\/SKEOCH FARM, WELLINGTON COUNTY, ONTARIO)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  EPISODE 370:    ONE DAY IN JUNE 2021  (JUNE 16)  FREEMAN\/SKEOCH FARM, WELLINGTON COUNTY, ONTARIO)<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
June 13, 2021<\/div>\n

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Today I quit work early in the morning.  Too nice a day to work.  So I spoke<\/div>\n
to myself.  \u201cAlan, why don\u2019t you try to capture this day on he farm.  Forget about<\/div>\n
all your old machines.  Forget about weeding.   Forget about appointments.”<\/div>\n

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“Just take a walk.  Make the walk into an episode..\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cGood idea, but readers like a purpose.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cPurpose\u2026shhhhmorpose.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNo, they need a challenge.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cChallenge\u2026shhhhmallenge.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLet me give them just one thing to look for.\u201d\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSee if they can find the thistles that are taking over the flax and sweet clover field.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLook for thistles?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThistles\u2026.ssssmmistles.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The thistles are about to disappear beneath the blade of the Bobcat bucket.<\/div>\n

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alan Skeoch<\/div>\n

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  EPISODE 370:    ONE DAY IN JUNE 2021  (JUNE 16)  FREEMAN\/SKEOCH FARM, WELLINGTON COUNTY, ONTARIO) alan skeoch June 13, 2021 Today I quit work early in the morning.  Too nice a day to work.  So I spoke to myself.  \u201cAlan, why don\u2019t you try to capture this day on he farm.  Forget about all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}