{"id":15889,"date":"2026-11-12T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15889"},"modified":"2026-11-12T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:53:59","slug":"jacks-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/jacks-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack&#8217;s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15890\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/RIC141D5-TOM-AT-JACKS-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15890\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/RIC141D5-TOM-AT-JACKS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/RIC141D5-TOM-AT-JACKS-1.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/RIC141D5-TOM-AT-JACKS-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/RIC141D5-TOM-AT-JACKS-1-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/RIC141D5-TOM-AT-JACKS-1-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Clore, pausing at my request, looks towards Jack&#8217;s. Tom is seated on an International H, the rig to the right a home crafted spray rig.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the most basic level, dairy farming is easily understood. The sun runs everything. The weather, the seasons, the crops, the dairy herd-all are sun driven. Jack&#8217;s house faced east. The orientation wasn\u2019t accidental. The rising sun blasted inhabitants out of bed. After 8 score and ten years of operation\u2014 the patterns of life and work that existed on the farm had no difficulty whipping me, the 1975 resident and newest employee, into shape. Laziness, in any form, was universally scorned by Rosni workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the most basic level, dairy farming is easily understood. The sun runs everything. The weather, the seasons, the crops, the dairy herd-all are sun driven. Jack&#8217;s house faced east. The orientation wasn\u2019t accidental. The rising sun blasted inhabitants out of bed. After 8 score and ten years of operation\u2014 the patterns of life and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/jacks-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jack&#8217;s House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[77,4,25,30,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-77","category-agrarian","category-friends","category-heart","category-rosni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15891,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions\/15891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}