{"id":3100,"date":"2006-09-02T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:32:59","slug":"writing-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/09\/02\/writing-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/090306A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/090306A.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s dove hunting season, and I live out in the country.  Add to that the fact that Mary Ann had been feeding the wild birds on the property for years now, and it&#8217;s not surprising that shotgun fire is coming from across the pond, and has been for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Ann is well aware of it.  She pouts and says, &#8220;They&#8217;re shooting my doves.&#8221;  I tell her that no, every last one of them is very agile in flight and all of the hunters are missing.   Maybe it&#8217;ll mean even more doves in the front yard, a shotgun-free zone.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think she buys it<\/p>\n<p>Ah, life in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s dove hunting season, and I live out in the country. Add to that the fact that Mary Ann had been feeding the wild birds on the property for years now, and it&#8217;s not surprising that shotgun fire is coming from across the pond, and has been for some time now. Mary Ann is well&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/09\/02\/writing-under-fire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Under Fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,393,279],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-O0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}