We was spindly little things but we was strong. Us from back on the mountain. We worked like them town kids didn’t. <\/p>\n
Why we’d start before it even got light. Seemed like the middle of the night. I guess it was too. We’d work with the cows and the corn and the chickens and with whatever else grandma needed done, ’til the dark came. <\/p>\n
Sometimes we’d boil up a hog or clear out a field. Not just brush and stuff but big ole trees. I’d get up in the tops of them pines and Wick’d cut ’em down and I’d ride ’em all the way to the ground. KAWHAM!! <\/em> Now that’s a fact boys. Wonder it didn’t knock the livin’ life right out of me. But I weren’t afraid of nothin’ back then. Didn’t know to be. <\/p>\n Yes sir. We’d burn up the days with work. The hard kind. It helped turn us into men when them town kids was just boys. All spring and summer and most of the fall. Didn’t even have shoes to do it in neither. Not during them months. But somehow we always got ’em for winter. Even though we never thought we would. <\/p>\n Farmer, from Way Back<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We was spindly little things but we was strong. Us from back on the mountain. We worked like them town kids didn’t. Why we’d start before it even got light. Seemed like the middle of the night. I guess it was too. We’d work with the cows and the corn and the chickens and with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}