{"id":166,"date":"2005-05-18T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2005\/05\/18\/why-rural-life-is-better-for-children"},"modified":"2005-05-18T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T10:38:00","slug":"why-rural-life-is-better-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/why-rural-life-is-better-for-children.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rural Life Is Better For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff<\/span> Culbreath<\/a> outlines Why Rural Life Is Better For Children<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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After 20 years of town-dwelling, I’m probably more suited to city life than country life. My five or six years on the farm in my boyhood gave me a love for the countryside, but it didn’t really make a farmer out of me, nor did it give me the skills I would need as homesteader. So I am pretty much resigned to the fact that I’ll always have a job in town and will never make a living from the land.<\/p>\n

We moved to the country primarily because I am convinced that rural life – so long as it is not lived in front of TVs, computers, and video games – is much better for children. This isn’t intuitively obvious to everyone, so I’ll list a few reasons here: <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am in a similar spot, although change “five or six years” to “eighteen years.” Also, scratch the part about being pretty much resigned to my fate.<\/p>\n

It’s a good list of reasons, and a good discussion. Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Culbreath outlines Why Rural Life Is Better For Children: After 20 years of town-dwelling, I’m probably more suited to city life than country life. My five or six years on the farm in my boyhood gave me a love for the countryside, but it didn’t really make a farmer out of me, nor did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-2G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}