{"id":1243,"date":"2015-12-23T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2015-12-23T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:12:14","slug":"god-speed-the-plough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"God Speed the Plough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then you need some fresh inspiration for why you do what you do. \u00a0This old English Folk Song from the 15th century did that for me today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Let the wealthy and great<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Roll in splendour and state,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I envy them not, I declare it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I eat my own lamb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My own chickens and ham,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I shear my own fleece and I wear it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have lawns, I have bowers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have fruits, I have flowers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The lark is my morning alarmer,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So jolly boys now,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s to God Speed the Plough<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Long life and success to the Farmer! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then you need some fresh inspiration for why you do what you do. \u00a0This old English Folk Song from the 15th century did that for me today. Let the wealthy and great Roll in splendour and state, I envy them not, I declare it. I eat my own lamb. My own chickens [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","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=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}