{"id":250,"date":"2008-01-24T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:41","slug":"sittin-on-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/sittin-on-grandpa.html","title":{"rendered":"Sittin&#8217; on Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Family-girl-dog-1.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 385px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/b\/b7\/Family-girl-dog-1.jpg\/385px-Family-girl-dog-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On a hot summer day, sittin&#8217; on grandpa is the funnest thing for a pixie-cut girl to do.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Family-girl-dog-1.jpg\">This photo <\/a>hails from the late 1930s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Photos_of_West-Central_Minnesota_Farm_Life%2C_Early_20th_Century\">in rural Minnesota<\/a>, and is the kind of candid real-life photo you hope to see out of dozens of posed, dour pictures of family members.   It&#8217;s also a part of the farm photos don&#8217;t usually get taken at &#8211;nobody poses in front of the junk pile for a family picture.  The jungle-gym is clearly Grandpa: he looks much the same in nearly every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Husband-and-wife-2.jpg\">photo<\/a>, up until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Faint-grandpa-sitting.jpg\">the 50s<\/a>.  The guy sitting up, I&#8217;m unsure who he might be, possibly a hired hand.  As a farm kid, I remember those summer days &#8212; &#8220;I&#8217;m bored; I should go bother Grandpa for a while.&#8221;   Turns out, Grandpas usually spend all day hoping the grandkids stop by to interrupt his work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-8269669585306818674?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot summer day, sittin&#8217; on grandpa is the funnest thing for a pixie-cut girl to do. This photo hails from the late 1930s in rural Minnesota, and is the kind of candid real-life photo you hope to see out of dozens of posed, dour pictures of family members. It&#8217;s also a part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,13,158,307,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}