{"id":678,"date":"2014-09-25T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2014-09-25T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:50:50","slug":"caring-for-animals-and-plants-basic-to-what-it-means-to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/caring-for-animals-and-plants-basic-to-what-it-means-to-be-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for animals and plants?  Basic to what it means to be human?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/buffalo-herd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/buffalo-herd.jpg\" alt=\"buffalo herd\" width=\"200\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ranch life is interesting.\u00a0 When we go out to feed the buffalo, it&#8217;s always hard to leave them.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something calming about feeding and caring for animals and grass.\u00a0 We suspect it&#8217;s some primal agricultural impulse, some ancient knowledge imbedded in the very genes that make us human, that tells us that caring for animals and plants IS survival.\u00a0\u00a0Just petting a dog or cat touches that same need to protect and care for the animals who mean so much to our psychological life, we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ranch life is interesting.\u00a0 When we go out to feed the buffalo, it&#8217;s always hard to leave them.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something calming about feeding and caring for animals and grass.\u00a0 We suspect it&#8217;s some primal agricultural impulse, some ancient knowledge imbedded in the very genes that make us human, that tells us that caring for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}