{"id":124,"date":"2012-07-01T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T18:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/early-corn-planting-alla-peek-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2012-07-01T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T18:06:31","slug":"early-corn-planting-alla-peek-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/early-corn-planting-alla-peek-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"Early corn Planting —Alla Peek Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"

My grandmother wrote this around 1960, when she was around 77 years old. -jsq<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> I remember when corn in the fields was dropped by hand \u2014 2 grains every two steps. Mule plow opened the furrow & children dropped the grains.<\/p>\n

The first corn planter was considered bad \u2014 it was sure to keep the seed from sprouting!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My brother Patrick found this text in a notebook his aunt Elsie had kept.<\/p>\n

-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My grandmother wrote this around 1960, when she was around 77 years old. -jsq I remember when corn in the fields was dropped by hand \u2014 2 grains every two steps. Mule plow opened the furrow & children dropped the grains. The first corn planter was considered bad \u2014 it was sure to keep the […]","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,106,10,6,60],"tags":[2761,422,423,24,4,3,23,2764,5,2,2760,131,2780,25],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-elsie","category-history","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-plants","tag-agriculture","tag-alla-irene-peek","tag-alla-peek-quarterman","tag-brown-dog","tag-day-month-year","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-history","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-patrick-quarterman","tag-plants","tag-yellow-dog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}