{"id":166,"date":"2007-12-12T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2007-12-12T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T02:29:08","slug":"living-off-the-grid-in-ashe-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Living off the grid in Ashe County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountaintimes.com\/mtweekly\/2007\/1206\/willpower.php3\">Mountain Times has a nice article<\/a> on a woman who lives off the grid in Ashe County and produces almost all of her own food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I left a career in nursing to pursue a primitive lifestyle. Since leaving public employment, I have gained my sense of humor, my health and my life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This life is hard                    work, but it feels good to be physically tired at the end of the day, as opposed to being mentally tired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I certainly admire anyone who can reach that level of frugality and self-sufficiency. However, for myself, I&#8217;ll be looking for the sweet spot between simple living and having leisure time for things I want to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountain Times has a nice article on a woman who lives off the grid in Ashe County and produces almost all of her own food. &#8220;I left a career in nursing to pursue a primitive lifestyle. Since leaving public employment, I have gained my sense of humor, my health and my life,&#8221; she said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living off the grid in Ashe County&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}