{"id":11547,"date":"2014-04-17T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=11547"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:58:15","slug":"manifesto-the-mad-farmer-liberation-front-by-wendell-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/17\/manifesto-the-mad-farmer-liberation-front-by-wendell-berry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;MANIFESTO: THE MAD FARMER LIBERATION FRONT&#8217;  by WENDELL BERRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Love the quick profit, the annual raise,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> vacation with pay. Want more<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> of everything ready-made. Be afraid<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> to know your neighbors and to die.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> And you will have a window in your head.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Not even your future will be a mystery<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> any more. Your mind will be punched in a card<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> and shut away in a little drawer.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> When they want you to buy something<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> they will call you. When they want you<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> to die for profit they will let you know.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(To read the poem in its entirety, click the photo)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.context.org\/iclib\/ic30\/berry\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11548\" alt=\"wendell-berry-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wendell-berry-1.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XlUoDCqk4n\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.org\/iclib\/ic30\/berry\/\">Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front&#8221; &#8212; Context Institute\" src=\"https:\/\/www.context.org\/iclib\/ic30\/berry\/embed\/#?secret=es5EdDckBG#?secret=XlUoDCqk4n\" data-secret=\"XlUoDCqk4n\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT: &#8220;Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11556,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions\/11556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}