{"id":17314,"date":"2012-11-19T17:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17314"},"modified":"2012-11-19T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:36:30","slug":"the-sound-of-gunfire-off-in-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17314","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Gunfire, Off In The Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121119-163237.jpg\"><br \/>\niPhone\n<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, while I was out in our new yard, wondering what to do with two acres of oak leaves, I heard a sound I hadn't heard in along time. Someone was shooting at something, a ways off through the woods. It was a sound I hadn't heard in many years. My grandparents lived in rural upstate NY where, in the cold months, those long-echoing rifle shots were as frequent as the cars on the gravel road past the house - and nearly as deadly to their dogs. A brown lab running through the woods in the winter is certain to attract the psychopathic liars who will later claim they couldn't tell the difference between a deer and a dog. Their black and yellow labs were liable to pass for deer sometimes, too.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we don't have any dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121119-164519.jpg\"><br \/>\niPhone\n<\/p>\n<p>For the leaves, I got my 50' extension cord and my leaf blower, and blew the first 50' of leaves into a low cardioid berm all surrounding the house. I'm sure it's all filled in with new leaves today. But it was nice to be out in the woods anyway. It beats staring at the maze of unpacked boxes that we have inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone Yesterday afternoon, while I was out in our new yard, wondering what to do with two acres of oak leaves, I heard a sound I hadn't heard in along time. Someone was shooting at something, a ways off through the woods. It was a sound I hadn't heard in many years. My grandparents lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}