{"id":1288,"date":"2023-10-13T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2023-10-13T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:51:15","slug":"who-says-you-cant-go-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Who Says You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past week I defied the message in Thomas Wolfe&#8217;s novel, <em>You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again<\/em>. I did go home &#8211; to Lampasas, Texas to speak at the annual Lampasas County Farm Bureau Convention. I grew up in Lampasas and graduated from Lampasas High School. So it was a thrill and honor to be asked to return home to speak to the Farm Bureau. I enjoyed visiting with people I knew 50 years ago and meeting new friends. My presentation was &#8220;Myths and Misconceptions About Modern Agriculture: Insights from the Wizard of Oz.&#8221; Of course I was dressed as the Wizard of Oz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gary-wizard-2-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gary-wizard-2-crop.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gary-wizard-2-crop-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gary-wizard-2-crop-768x671.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I defied the message in Thomas Wolfe&#8217;s novel, You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again. I did go home &#8211; to Lampasas, Texas to speak at the annual Lampasas County Farm Bureau Convention. I grew up in Lampasas and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1288\">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":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}