{"id":305,"date":"2019-04-10T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/?p=305"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:35:27","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cambodian-rice-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of a Cambodian Rice Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"305\" class=\"elementor elementor-305 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-071bca7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"071bca7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e3aca17\" data-id=\"e3aca17\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee0bb89 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ee0bb89\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I grab ten golden stalks of rice in my left hand and bunch them together.<\/h3><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justapack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141203_085542_1-1-1100x619.jpg\" alt=\"day in the life of a cambodian rice farmer kampot\" \/><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The serrated sickle in my right hand saws through the stems clumsily; it takes multiple efforts to cut them all. Salty sweat drips down my forehead and into my eyes; the stagnant humidity and the hot sun\u2019s embrace are both relentless.<\/p><div>\u00a0<\/div><p>I straighten my back, and shuffle over a few feet to grab another handful of rice stalks. The curved crescent blade, rusted near the hilt, cuts and saws again. Success. I add more stalks to the growing bundle in my left hand and move on.<\/p><p>I have been doing this for a hour, and have fallen into an almost meditative trance. All that exists is the golden rice paddy, my tool, the sweat, the groaning protest of my muscles, and the rice in hand. Every time I cut down as many stalks as I can hold in my fist, I walk out of the rice paddy and deposit my cuttings onto the ground, into the large pile I have been collecting.<\/p><p>I stop to wipe sweat off of my face, stretch my muscles, and take in the beauty of my rural Cambodian surroundings. The sea of golden green rice paddy seems never ending beneath an almost-too-blue sky. Only one hour, and I\u2019m already tired, ready to find some shade, a cold drink, and a stool to prop my feet up on.<\/p><p>I don\u2019t think I would have made it as a rice farmer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grab ten golden stalks of rice in my left hand and bunch them together. The serrated sickle in my right hand saws through the stems clumsily; it takes multiple efforts to cut them all. Salty sweat drips down my forehead and into my eyes; the stagnant humidity and the hot sun\u2019s embrace are both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-and-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longgrain.com.kh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}