{"id":1273,"date":"2023-07-26T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:36:55","slug":"i-didnt-know-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spoke at the Fountain Park Chautauqua in Remington, Indian on July 17 on the topic <em>From Cradle to Grave: The Impact of Sears Roebuck on Rural America. <\/em>My goal was to get the audience to say, \u201cI didn\u2019t know that.\u201d It didn\u2019t take long. Sears and Roebuck was engaged in numerous activities to benefit rural America that few people know about such as paying the salaries of county agents, buying furs from trappers, producing movies about agriculture, providing scholarships to rural youth, promoting victory gardens, starting adult farmer short courses, establishing livestock chains, and the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sears-Final-Fountain-Park-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sears-Final-Fountain-Park-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sears-Final-Fountain-Park-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sears-Final-Fountain-Park-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sears-Final-Fountain-Park.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke at the Fountain Park Chautauqua in Remington, Indian on July 17 on the topic From Cradle to Grave: The Impact of Sears Roebuck on Rural America. My goal was to get the audience to say, \u201cI didn\u2019t know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1273\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}