{"id":1499,"date":"2012-07-05T21:29:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2012-09-05T19:28:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:28:58","slug":"shotguns-and-rabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/shotguns-and-rabbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotguns and Rabbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All too soon the weekend ended; time to go back to Portora. At least I had my rabbit pelt, though within a few days it wasn\u2019t nearly as soft and fluffy as it had been. Tufts of hair began falling out, and it developed a distinct funk that wasn\u2019t the dirty rugby shorts and socks at the bottom of my locker. I first thought it was the nearby bogs until I took a close look at it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terrence Murphy, a sixth former, walked up in Wellies, casually cradling a double-barreled shotgun. \u201cYou didn\u2019t cure it, did you?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNo,\u201d I said meekly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terrence shook his head, grinned, and walked away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">~ The Troubles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All too soon the weekend ended; time to go back to Portora. At least I had my rabbit pelt, though within a few days it wasn\u2019t nearly as soft and fluffy as it had been. Tufts of hair began falling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/shotguns-and-rabbits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles","tag-memoir-2","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}