{"id":14144,"date":"2015-08-29T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2015-08-28T07:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:35:18","slug":"from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-sowing-clover-the-end-of-workby-tonya-stiles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/29\/from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-sowing-clover-the-end-of-workby-tonya-stiles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the August\/September Zephyr) Sowing Clover: The End of Work\u2026by Tonya Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love to see horses out in the fields. I hardly ever see more than a handful at a time, grazing among the tall grasses, and pawing the ground. Occasionally one starts and prances toward the fence line, for reasons left unknown. But I have never seen a horse at work in those fields. I have never seen a horse engaged in industry, and I doubt that I\u2019m the only one. The population of horses in this country, which was enormous in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/07\/world-without-work\/395294\/\" target=\"_blank\">fell off<\/a> by nearly half in the first 30 years of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, and then by 90% by the 1950s. Their services were rendered useless, in a span of 50 years, by technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to why I am thinking about the horse today. I am thinking about the horse because it was once essential, and thanks to technology, now it is only lovely. The horse is now only a reminder of a less efficient time. And soon the average worker will be the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Tonya&#8217;s article, click the image below:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/08\/02\/sowing-clover-the-end-of-work-by-tonya-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/horse-shiprock2-e1438616107908.jpg\" alt=\"horse-shiprock2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/08\/02\/sowing-clover-the-end-of-work-by-tonya-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/08\/02\/sowing-clover-the-end-of-work-by-tonya-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: I love to see horses out in the fields. I hardly ever see more than a handful at a time, grazing among the tall grasses, and pawing the ground. Occasionally one starts and prances toward the fence line, for reasons left unknown. But I have never seen a horse at work in those fields. [&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-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144","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=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14145,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions\/14145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}