{"id":145,"date":"2015-03-24T20:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2023-08-09T14:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:32:04","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is blog is always a work in progress and a learning experience, please excuse any errors or typos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I post intermittently on whatever takes my interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lately, a lot of my posts have been about <a href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/?s=tobacco\">tobacco control<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/?s=vaping\">vaping<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I also write about:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Travel:<\/strong> Places I have been to like <a title=\"Cuba\" href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/cuba\/\">Cuba, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/tatras\/\">Poland<\/a> and <a title=\"The Netherlands\" href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/the-netherlands\/\">The Netherlands.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Politics:<\/strong> Why I think the left is usually right and the right s usually wrong. Oops, given away my bias already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Heroes:<\/strong> People I admire like <a title=\"George Monbiot\" href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/george-monbiot\/\">George Monbiot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nature:<\/strong> Why nature is important in our lives and natural things I like to do, such as working for Toronto Nature Stewards at <a href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/oyston-com-blog-tnsleaside\/\">Leaside Park<\/a> and <a title=\"Kentucky Coffeetree\" href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/31\/kentucky-coffeetree\/\">growing trees from seeds.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oak Hills Farm:<\/strong>&nbsp; I have a 101-acre property south of Rice Lake, Ontario. What should someone do if they have that much property? Read about my <a title=\"Oak Hills Farm Introduction\" href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/hello-world\/\">Prairie and Arboretum.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I <a title=\"Am I Worthy?\" href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/am-i-worthy\/\">worthy<\/a> of your time and attention? That is up to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is blog is always a work in progress and a learning experience, please excuse any errors or typos. I post intermittently on whatever takes my interest. Lately, a lot of my posts have been about tobacco control and vaping. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"paget-sitemap.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5VvjI-2l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oyston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}