{"id":11543,"date":"2019-11-26T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2019-11-19T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:37:34","slug":"the-end-of-a-country-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-end-of-a-country-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of a country lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shenandoah <em>Valley News Today<\/em> columnist Evelyn Birkby is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleynewstoday.com\/opinion\/up_a_country_lane\/wrapping-up-my-column\/article_709634b6-fca8-11e9-8d6d-c74b0a301eec.html\">hanging up her keyboard<\/a>\u00a0after more than 3600 columns.<\/p>\n<p><em>My Up a Country Lane column has been published in this newspaper every week without fail since 1949.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now I\u2019ve reached a point in my life where I\u2019m no longer able to write as well as I used to. I want to pass the landmark of 70 years of columns, and then put a bow on my writing career. My November 27th column will be my last.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleynewstoday.com\/opinion\/up_a_country_lane\/my-first-column\/article_42fe5fe2-fca8-11e9-a235-0b0b677f0411.html\">Her first column<\/a> has been posted online as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our \u201cCountry Club\u201d met with its usual relaxed good humor. \u00a0I have often felt that its greatest value was to give farm wives a chance to just sit for two afternoons a month. \u201cJust sitting\u201d is almost a luxury to me anymore. Perhaps riding herd on a two year old has made more difference in my sitting time than any other activity in a crowded day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were many more farm wives in 1949.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenandoah Valley News Today columnist Evelyn Birkby is hanging up her keyboard\u00a0after more than 3600 columns. My Up a Country Lane column has been published in this newspaper every week without fail since 1949. Now I\u2019ve reached a point in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-end-of-a-country-lane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}