{"id":725,"date":"2008-06-22T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/22\/a-legacy-for-no-one\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:54:08","slug":"a-legacy-for-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/a-legacy-for-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Legacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;<span class=\"textstyle1\">I think we need to appreciate what we have and protect it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/cranes.pdf\" title=\"Nature vs. Greed, What Legacy Are You Teaching Your Children? from: Abe21.net 6\/22\/08\">Nature vs. Greed, What Legacy Are You Teaching Your Children? from: Abe21.net 6\/22\/08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A world without children will be a poorer world &#8212; grayer, lonelier, less creative, less confident. Children have always been a great blessing, but it may take their disappearance for the world to remember why.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/a-world-without-children-the-boston-globe.pdf\" title=\"A World Without Children - Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe\"><br \/>\nA World Without Children &#8211; Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tension is between those who don&#8217;t have kids yet who are, ostensibly, trying to save the world for the kids of tomorrow, and those who are trying to figure out a way to live with their kids in the world of today.  But those most active in preserving nature don&#8217;t appear too interested in having messy little kids muck around in their pristine wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>So who really are the greedy ones in this paradigm?  The folks who want to lock up vast tracks of mostly other people&#8217;s land because they like the way it looks, or the folks who want to mortgage their lives away for a small piece of property on the fringe of the metro area in the hope of securing a small piece of the American dream to raise a family?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think we need to appreciate what we have and protect it.&#8221; Nature vs. Greed, What Legacy Are You Teaching Your Children? from: Abe21.net 6\/22\/08 &#8220;A world without children will be a poorer world &#8212; grayer, lonelier, less creative, less confident. Children have always been a great blessing, but it may take their disappearance for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-child-protection","7":"category-country-life","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}