{"id":4919,"date":"2019-04-06T06:31:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2019-04-05T23:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T03:41:56","slug":"sat-april-6-2019-so-many-people-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/04\/06\/sat-april-6-2019-so-many-people-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. April 6, 2019 &#8211; so many people don&#8217;t know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Probably warm and damp, but I&#8217;m still in bed.  Stiff and sore from the work I did at the Spring Festival.  Kids had fun, which is the whole point.<\/p>\n<p>Spent part of yesterday dropping off a truckload of stuff at the auction house.  I&#8217;ve been going there for years to buy, now I have some stuff to sell.  Since ebay sales are off, and I need to move stuff, I figured that this might be a good time to use a pro.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, long conversation with one of the people there.  She&#8217;s not actually a prepper, but grew up country, and that means being ready for hard times, being frugal, keeping out of debt, and having preps.<\/p>\n<p>I brought up Venezuela as an example of how quickly and smoothly it can fall apart.  She had no idea Venezuela was failing.  NO idea they&#8217;d had a multi-day power outage and people died as a result.  She had heard absolutely nothing about it.  <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not the only one.  <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s smart, conservative, and in the family business, and had no idea what was happening. Given that we&#8217;ve been watching it here, for the last 5? years, I&#8217;m gobsmacked.  There are like minded individuals out there that haven&#8217;t got the same awareness.  <\/p>\n<p>Spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Probably warm and damp, but I&#8217;m still in bed.  Stiff and sore from the work I did at the Spring Festival.  Kids had fun, which is the whole point.<\/p>\n<p>Spent part of yesterday dropping off a truckload of stuff at the auction house.  I&#8217;ve been going there for years to buy, now I have some stuff to sell.  Since ebay sales are off, and I need to move stuff, I figured that this might be a good time to use a pro.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/04\/06\/sat-april-6-2019-so-many-people-dont-know\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. April 6, 2019 &#8211; so many people don&#8217;t know &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}