{"id":2472,"date":"2017-07-22T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T18:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2017-07-26T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:26:30","slug":"another-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Another Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

My town started out as a village, the nice place to live without the rowdy saloons and brothels near the mountain. \u00a0 And as it grew it swallowed up the nearby villages to become a city. \u00a0 \u00a0But if a village is distant enough to the city, it stays a village, like this one I visited this past week.<\/p>\n

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The retired horse-drawn farm implements of the past reinforce the bucolic setting.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know if this was a livery stable, garage, or store, but I look at it and think that it would do admirably as an artist’s studio. \u00a0If only it was nearer to town. \u00a0 Although if it was nearer to town, it would probably have already been torn down and replaced.<\/p>\n

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This former store is still full of stuff, saved for a rainy day perhaps? \u00a0Or perhaps it was just too much work to get rid of things.<\/p>\n

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This village is still here, but the train that served it is gone. \u00a0I suspect that some of the residents make the long commute into town to work. \u00a0And at some point in the distant future, the city will come to swallow this place up as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My town started out as a village, the nice place to live without the rowdy saloons and brothels near the mountain. \u00a0 And as it grew it swallowed up the nearby villages to become a city. \u00a0 \u00a0But if a village is distant enough to the city, it stays a village, like this one I … Continue reading Another Village<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}