{"id":4096,"date":"2013-10-25T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2013-10-25T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T00:15:50","slug":"when-tillage-begins-other-arts-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/when-tillage-begins-other-arts-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"When tillage begins, other arts follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Atlantic&#8217;s list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/11\/innovations-list\/309536\/\">&#8220;50 Greatest Inventions Since the Wheel,&#8221;<\/a> six have to do with agriculture: Nitrogen fixation (a surprising #11), the Green Revolution (Norman Borlaug is one of the few people name-checked, at #22), the moldboard plow (#30), the cotton gin (#33), scientific plant breeding (#38), and the combine (#50). The whole list is interesting and comes up with things that are so common you forget someone had to invent them, like alphabetization and the nail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Atlantic&#8217;s list of &#8220;50 Greatest Inventions Since the Wheel,&#8221; six have to do with agriculture: Nitrogen fixation (a surprising #11), the Green Revolution (Norman Borlaug is one of the few people name-checked, at #22), the moldboard plow (#30), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/when-tillage-begins-other-arts-follow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","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=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}