{"id":2074,"date":"2007-10-24T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/10\/24\/if-you-grew-up-in-rural-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:36:00","slug":"if-you-grew-up-in-rural-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/10\/24\/if-you-grew-up-in-rural-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Grew Up In Rural Minnesota:"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of these work for rural America in general, I think. Thanks to Orin’s sis, Gwynne:<\/p>\n

\"\"If You Grew Up In Rural Minnesota:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
\u00b7 You know the difference between ‘Green’ and ‘Red’ farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the playground over which was better!
\u00b7 You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.
\u00b7 You hear someone use the word ‘oof-dah’ and you don’t break into uncontrollable laughter.
\u00b7 You or someone you know was a ‘Dairy Princess’ at the county fair (pictured, above. \u00a0Orin doesn’t know her, but is amused the picture file is “tinabutterhead.jpg”)
\u00b7 You know that ‘combine’ is a noun.
\u00b7 You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.
\u00b7 You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
\u00b7 You know that ‘creek’ rhymes with ‘pick’.
\u00b7 Football schedules, hunting season and harvest are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.
\u00b7 Saturday you go to your local bowling alley.
\u00b7 There was at least one, if not several, in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning.
\u00b7 You have driven your car on the lake.
\u00b7 You can make sense of ‘upnort’ and ‘baatree’.
\u00b7 Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
\u00b7 Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
\u00b7 The local gas station sells live bait.
\u00b7 You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of these work for rural America in general, I think. Thanks to Orin’s sis, Gwynne: If You Grew Up In Rural Minnesota: \u00b7 You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.\u00b7 You know the difference between ‘Green’ and ‘Red’ farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the playground over which…<\/p>\n

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