{"id":24381,"date":"2020-05-26T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=24381"},"modified":"2020-05-26T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:31:50","slug":"quiet-lenox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/quiet-lenox\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Lenox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We may be witness to the Berkshires becoming a pleasant place of bucolic charm. If so, we&#8217;ll be glad of it &#8211; something about the long, hard rain of the GE era took the will out of the citizenry &#8211; it grew more submissive to the whim and demand of the Dollar, generation after generation, until we&#8217;re on the verge of converting land in Lee &#8211; &#8220;<strong>Gateway to the Berkshires<\/strong>&#8221; into a truly world-class PCB dump! <\/p>\n\n<p>The lunacy of organizing people around consumption &#8211; rather than production is enough to blow your mind. Mothers and fathers pour their children into a school system designed to produce people with dreams, hopes, and aspirations so low that they will be happy to be of service to consumers. There ought to be a law!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may be witness to the Berkshires becoming a pleasant place of bucolic charm. If so, we&#8217;ll be glad of it &#8211; something about the long, hard rain of the GE era took the will out of the citizenry &#8211; it grew more submissive to the whim and demand of the Dollar, generation after generation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}