{"id":696,"date":"2007-10-29T20:50:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T01:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/29\/pilling\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T03:22:28","slug":"pilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/29\/pilling\/","title":{"rendered":"pilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gird your loins, lads:<br \/>\nit&#8217;s time to pill the cat.<\/p>\n<p>The October afternoon cooled and darkened<br \/>\nhorses stirred restlessly in the paddock<br \/>\nworried about a storm moving over the bleak hills<\/p>\n<p>Charlie, take three of the lads<br \/>\nand come in from the north<br \/>\nand may God bless you all;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll bring the four MacKenzies<br \/>\nin from the top of the rise,<br \/>\nand\u00a0 we&#8217;ll surround her<br \/>\nbefore the moon rises.<\/p>\n<p>Cautiously we rode, hoping . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gird your loins, lads: it&#8217;s time to pill the cat. The October afternoon cooled and darkened horses stirred restlessly in the paddock worried about a storm moving over the bleak hills Charlie, take three of the lads and come in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/29\/pilling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,3],"tags":[995,57,112],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-poetry","tag-cats","tag-humour","tag-veterinary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}