{"id":13719,"date":"2023-08-24T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=13719"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:14:10","slug":"advice-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/advice-for-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayou Peter offers some, and it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/2023\/08\/folk-wisdom-that-remains-timeless.html\">truly great stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Advice from An Old Hillbilly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.<\/li>\n<li>Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.<\/li>\n<li>Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.<\/li>\n<li>A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.<\/li>\n<li>Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.<\/li>\n<li>The best sermons are lived, not preached.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t take the time to do it right, you&#8217;ll find the time to do it twice.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t corner something that is meaner than you.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he\u2019ll just kill you.<\/li>\n<li>It don\u2019t take a very big person to carry a grudge.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot unsay a cruel word.<\/li>\n<li>When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be banging your shin on a stool that&#8217;s not in the way.<\/li>\n<li>Borrowing trouble from the future doesn&#8217;t deplete the supply.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the stuff people worry about ain\u2019t never gonna happen anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2018t interfere with somethin\u2019 that ain\u2019t botherin&#8217; you none.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s a mere sampler, there\u2019s plenty more at the link. Taken for all in all, it just goes to show that there really is such a thing as \u201ctimeless.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayou Peter offers some, and it\u2019s truly great stuff. Advice from An Old Hillbilly: Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/advice-for-the-ages\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Advice for the ages<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48,61,84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-hmmm","category-passthepopcorn","category-read-and-heed","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-84-id","wpcat-89-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13720,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions\/13720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}