{"id":2714,"date":"2006-12-20T22:11:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2006-12-20T22:11:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:11:43","slug":"federal_subsidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"Federal Subsidies Turn Farms into Big Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/20\/AR2006122001591.html?referrer=emailarticle\">Gilbert Gaul, Sarah Cohen &#038; Dan Morgan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The cornerstone of the multibillion-dollar system of federal farm subsidies is an iconic image of the struggling family farmer: small, powerless against Mother Nature, tied to the land by blood.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWithout generous government help, farm-state politicians say, thousands of these hardworking families would fail, threatening the nation&#8217;s abundant food supply.<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;In today&#8217;s fast-paced, interconnected world, there are few industries where sons and daughters can work side-by-side with moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas,&#8221; Rep. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said last year. &#8220;But we still find that today in agriculture. . . . It is a celebration of what too many in our country have forgotten, an endangered way of life that we must work each and every day to preserve.&#8221;<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThis imagery secures billions annually in what one grower called &#8220;empathy payments&#8221; for farmers. But it is misleading.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilbert Gaul, Sarah Cohen &#038; Dan Morgan: The cornerstone of the multibillion-dollar system of federal farm subsidies is an iconic image of the struggling family farmer: small, powerless against Mother Nature, tied to the land by blood. Without generous government help, farm-state politicians say, thousands of these hardworking families would fail, threatening the nation&#8217;s abundant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}