{"id":114,"date":"2014-11-13T02:28:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T02:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2014-11-17T05:35:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T05:35:29","slug":"the-early-bird-gets-the-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"The Early Bird gets the Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder when I\u2019ll have done enough on our franch to call myself a farmer or a rancher. \u00a0I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ll ever be truly deserving of that title. \u00a0For one, farmers are famous for being early risers. \u00a0If I need to wake up at 4:30 a.m. on a daily basis to be a farmer, I guess I\u2019ll have to settle for always being a wannabe. \u00a0I like to sleep in the mornings until the sun is well up in the sky. \u00a0There is though hope for our children to someday claim the title since they like to get their simple morning franch chores done early. \u00a0They set their alarms to go off well before me. \u00a0One early morning, I was abruptly shaken away. \u00a0Our then seven-year old son, out of breath, smelling of fresh morning air, had a story to tell. \u00a0Excitedly, he said, \u201cSometimes the early bird doesn\u2019t just get the worm, he gets the adventure too!\u201d \u00a0It happens often that, as I sip my morning coffee, I smile as I listen to the re-telling of my children\u2019s early morning adventures on the franch. \u00a0I learn as many lessons from my children as they learn from me. \u00a0Wake up early. \u00a0Adventures are waiting to be lived. \u00a0Don\u2019t sleep through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder when I\u2019ll have done enough on our franch to call myself a farmer or a rancher. \u00a0I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ll ever be truly deserving of that title. \u00a0For one, farmers are famous for being early risers. \u00a0If I need to wake up at 4:30 a.m. on a daily basis to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphors","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}