{"id":29706,"date":"2022-04-07T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29706"},"modified":"2022-04-07T07:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:50:47","slug":"not-quite-that-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/07\/not-quite-that-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite That Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Licking News<\/em>, small a paper as it is, has numerous columns worth reading along with a comic page with puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>On of the comics is R.F.D. by Mike Marland.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the cartoon dealt with local sourcing of foods:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/rfdcartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We at Nogglestead are not <em>that<\/em> country.  Although there are many beef operations in the area, including one run by the realtor who helped us find Nogglestead, we do not frequent farmer&#8217;s markets to get to know small producers nor do we really home in on local producers whose names we might recognize from <em>Ozarks Farm and Neighbor<\/em>.  Mostly, we grab what is least expensive at the grocery or the warehouse club store.<\/p>\n<p>I am, however, reminded of the time I went back to Kansas with a girlfriend to visit her grandparents, and on Sunday morning, the grandmother or aunt served bacon from Uncle Rick&#8217;s pig&#8211;and she said she did not like store boughten bacon at all.  Although she probably did not say &#8220;boughten,&#8221; given how much of a throwback to the old ways both families of farmers were in the 1990s, she probably meant it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Licking News, small a paper as it is, has numerous columns worth reading along with a comic page with puzzles. On of the comics is R.F.D. by Mike Marland. Last week, the cartoon dealt with local sourcing of foods: We at Nogglestead are not that country. Although there are many beef operations in the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706","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=29706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29707,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions\/29707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}