{"id":9787,"date":"2017-01-30T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T20:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9787"},"modified":"2017-02-07T05:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:29:29","slug":"9787-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9787-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Four Fonts
\nfor Victor Davis Hanson<\/em><\/p>\n

When young I thought all wealth came from the soil,
\nforests, seas and mines.
\nMy finest early lines
\nwere blessings on our farmers and their toil.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve praised the fishermen, the loggers too.
\nNoble, the miner\u2019s soul
\ndigging the earth for coal,
\nfor iron ore that builds a penthouse view.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve praised the trees for papers that we read,
\nmuch credit to him too
\nmachining every screw
\nthat knits together everything we need,<\/p>\n

the roughneck drilling for our gas and oil.
\nI still think all our wealth comes from the soil.<\/p>\n

Great essay, Tim Murphy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four Fonts for Victor Davis Hanson When young I thought all wealth came from the soil, forests, seas and mines. My finest early lines were blessings on our farmers and their toil. I\u2019ve praised the fishermen, the loggers too. Noble, the miner\u2019s soul digging the earth for coal, for iron ore that builds a penthouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2xR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1818,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/where-did-out-real-wealth-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":9787,"position":0},"title":"Where Did Out Real Wealth Go?","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Greek Lesson No, I don\u2019t mean the classical Greeks, but their present-day counterparts. 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