{"id":7,"date":"2006-10-06T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2006-10-06T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T13:42:31","slug":"about-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"About This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">When I first moved to the country the road our house is on didn&#8217;t even have a name. It was a gravel road that turned into a dirt track just past our driveway. There are a lot of these roads in rural areas, roads meant only to provide field access for a farmer&#8217;s tractor. It&#8217;s still that way, though with the coming of 911 service ,the road now has a name. In the banner picture you can see the warning signs in front of our place.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">We see a lot of vehicles that come down the road until they notice these signs, then they turn around in our driveway and head back the way they came. Once in a while someone will continue on and, if the weather has been wet or snowy, they end up about 1\/4 mile from the signs, deep in mud or snow drifts. Some want to plow through the mud and see if their 4WD vehicle is up to the challenge. Others can&#8217;t believe that ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK meant exactly that. (For those, I want to put a sign on the back, that says WELCOME BACK STUPID!) Of course they all<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image14\" title=\"Rock Ends\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/rockends.jpg\" alt=\"Rock Ends\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"7\" vspace=\"5\" \/> passed this sign half a mile back. A sign that says: ROCK ENDS. Some hadn&#8217;t any idea what it meant, some ignored it and some said &#8216;Oh Boy!&#8217;<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">So this blog is (in part) about various reactions to encountering <strong>ROCK ENDS<\/strong> in life. I&#8217;ll talk about those who haven&#8217;t a clue, those who turn around and back-track, those who don&#8217;t believe, and those who consider it an adventure. Of course that isn&#8217;t everything I&#8217;ll discuss. I have various interests and will, over time, have something to say about all of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; When I first moved to the country the road our house is on didn&#8217;t even have a name. It was a gravel road that turned into a dirt track just past our driveway. There are a lot of these roads in rural areas, roads meant only to provide field access for a farmer&#8217;s tractor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}