{"id":401,"date":"2012-07-12T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2012-07-12T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:55:26","slug":"the-circle-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2012\/07\/12\/the-circle-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I grew up on a farm, I learned at a young age how to hunt, and all about the &#8220;circle of life,&#8221; as they put it. It was instilled upon us all how important the treatment of animals were, along with the need to use God&#8217;s creatures as a way to keep us alive with their meat, as well as their hides and other body parts for many other necessary usages.<\/p>\n<p>We grew up with many fire arms around and learned how to shoot and clean each weapon along the knowledge of which was used for what reasons. I didn&#8217;t get to do much hunting this fall, due to all of the work that is now placed on me and me alone around the farm, but I did manage to go twice and\u00a0I did\u00a0bring home some nice venison to eat during the winter months. It had been a while since I had gone hunting, but I enjoyed getting away from all the daily duties around the place, and was glad that the time spent away from the place was productive, and not all just entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I grew up on a farm, I learned at a young age how to hunt, and all about the &#8220;circle of life,&#8221; as they put it. It was instilled upon us all how important the treatment of animals were, along with the need to use God&#8217;s creatures as a way to keep us alive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2012\/07\/12\/the-circle-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Circle of Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,11,13,24],"tags":[127,152,173,272,307],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainmentfun","category-environmentgreen","category-farm-life-home","category-food","category-general-living","category-sports","tag-farm","tag-green","tag-hunting","tag-sports-2","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}