{"id":13018,"date":"2013-09-21T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13018"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T01:37:51","slug":"how-long-have-i-lived-in-the-country-a-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/how-long-have-i-lived-in-the-country-a-metric\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Have I Lived In The Country?  A Metric."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how long I have lived in the country these days?  Well, long enough that the suburbs are encroaching upon me and I&#8217;m not liking it.  But that does not truly measure the distance I&#8217;ve come in my nearly four (!) years at Nogglestead.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a truer yardstick is the evolution in my thought about the Gretchen Wilson song &#8220;Redneck Woman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When the song came out, I lived in St. Louis, and Gretchen Wilson is from Pocahantas, Illinois, which is close enough to St. Louis that the St. Louis area&#8211;not just the country and western radio stations&#8211;claims her as one of her own.  So she got a lot of radio play when her first album came out in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why it annoyed me.  Maybe it reminded me too much of my semi-youth in the trailer park and down the gravel road in Jefferson County.  <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, fast forward nine years and four years&#8217; worth of hearing the coyotes come out at night and go home in the morning, and when I&#8217;m bouncing my pickup truck down the rolling farm roads and when my country station of choice in the Springfield area has the song in heavy rotation, <em>and I don&#8217;t change the station.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fresh country air has changed me, maybe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82dDnv9zeLs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gretchen_Wilson\" target=\"_blank\">Gretchen Wilson&#8217;s Wikipedia entry<\/a> (WARNING: looking up Gretchen Wilson on Wikipedia puts you on some government watchlist or another, I suspect), her big break came when she was hired to sing twice nightly in a bar <em>in Springfield, Missouri<\/em>.  Whoa.  Man, I hope that comes up at trivia night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how long I have lived in the country these days? Well, long enough that the suburbs are encroaching upon me and I&#8217;m not liking it. But that does not truly measure the distance I&#8217;ve come in my nearly four (!) years at Nogglestead. Instead, a truer yardstick is the evolution in my thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13019,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018\/revisions\/13019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}