{"id":5159,"date":"2016-11-14T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhewnstones.com\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T19:52:47","slug":"the-mad-farmer-after-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2016\/11\/14\/the-mad-farmer-after-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The mad farmer, after the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Wednesday, as part of our homeschool curriculum, I read a poem with my daughter. We talk about what it means and whether we like it (and why). Sometimes we analyze it. Then she responds by drawing or painting. <\/p>\n<p>Last week I had intended to read G. K. Chesterton&#8217;s &#8220;For a War Memorial&#8221; in observance of Veteran&#8217;s Day and the Feast of St. Martin. But it was the day after the election, and she was upset and worried. So we read, instead, a couple of Wendell Berry&#8217;s &#8220;mad farmer&#8221; poems: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/patrickmurfin.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/national-poetry-monthwendell-berry-mad.html\">The Mad Farmer Revolution<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodnaturepublishing.com\/poem.htm\">Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/practice-resurrection-1024px-1024x764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/practice-resurrection-1024px-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"the mad farmer plows up the parking lot in front of the polling place\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4529\" \/><\/a><figcaption><q>In a parking lot \/ he planted a forest of little pines.<\/q><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I think we both felt better afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Practice resurrection, friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice resurrection, friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,9,17],"tags":[47,276,277],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/practice-resurrection-1024px-1024x764-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-1ld","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}