{"id":2086,"date":"2012-05-31T20:51:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2012-05-31T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:51:44","slug":"the-hard-life-of-a-3rd-grade-colonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2012\/05\/the-hard-life-of-a-3rd-grade-colonist.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hard Life of a 3rd Grade Colonist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a start to a (long) post about our Memorial Day weekend in New York, but things have just been way too busy! For starters, today was the day for pickling the cucumbers.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to practice letters, both with a quill and ink and on the slate.<\/p>\n

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Then the tin had to be punched to make new lanterns, the candles had to be made, silhouettes were needed to decorate the barren walls, and the weaving had to be done.<\/p>\n

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Every now and then, mother and son can take a break to say hi.<\/p>\n

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But then lunch has to be served…<\/p>\n

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…before the planting has to be done…<\/p>\n

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…and sachets need to be made to cover the stank of the unwashed Colonists (side note: I know why the Colonist women wore shawls. It was to hide the pit stains! Those clothes are hot!).<\/p>\n

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But be careful! You never know where the Redcoats are lurking.<\/p>\n

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No need to worry though. The Minutemen will have your back.<\/p>\n

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Hopefully the next few days will be less busy and I can post. That is, if I can find a computer in Ye Olde Computer Tavern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a start to a (long) post about our Memorial Day weekend in New York, but things have just been way too busy! For starters, today was the day for pickling the cucumbers. Then it was time to practice letters, both with a quill and ink and on the slate. Then the tin had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}