{"id":507,"date":"2008-04-21T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2008-04-21T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T20:53:11","slug":"oil-and-gas-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Oil and Gas Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>76\u00a0 bar steady 29.79 0mph ESE dewpoint 53\u00a0 Spring<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing<\/p>\n<p>This land baron business creates decisions.\u00a0 Just got an offer in the mail, unsolicited, for our land in Texas.\u00a0 On one\u00a0level it appears to be a generous offer for 40 acres of mesquite, sand and rattle snakes.\u00a0 On the other hand, how did somebody in California whose business card reads Oil and Gas Operator decide to send us an offer?\u00a0 Gonna check out the oil and natural gas situation in Pecos County quick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reporter for the Ft. Stockton newspaper who wrote up the scam that sold off a 5,000 acre ranch in 40 acre allotments said to me when I spoke with her,\u00a0 &#8220;My biggest hope is that oil or natural gas will be discovered under that land.\u00a0 Would serve&#8217;m right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My siblings and I got this land as an inheritance from a ne&#8217;er do well step brother.\u00a0 We still don&#8217;t why.\u00a0 He died and we got the land.\u00a0 He bought it on e-bay.<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, I hope we have more suitors out there.\u00a0 The ideal situation would be for us to lease our land to an oil company so they can put in a well.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>76\u00a0 bar steady 29.79 0mph ESE dewpoint 53\u00a0 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing This land baron business creates decisions.\u00a0 Just got an offer in the mail, unsolicited, for our land in Texas.\u00a0 On one\u00a0level it appears to be a generous offer for 40 acres of mesquite, sand and rattle snakes.\u00a0 On the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oil and Gas Operator<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}