{"id":6133,"date":"2017-03-10T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2017-03-10T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T14:37:04","slug":"farmer-rabbitman-from-way-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/farmer-rabbitman-from-way-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer. Rabbitman. From Way Back."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6127\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Ridge-Mountains-2016-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Ridge-Mountains-2016-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Ridge-Mountains-2016-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Ridge-Mountains-2016-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Ridge-Mountains-2016-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Ridge-Mountains-2016-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Ridge-Mountains-2016.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Ridge Mountains, May 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He said, &#8220;You reckon that&#8217;s what Heaven looks like?&#8221; I said, &#8220;It ought to, I climbed high enough.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Then he stuck a fireball in his mouth and turned back to the TV and said &#8220;Watch this right here.&#8221; And that son of Katie Elder put dynamite under a bridge and it went BOOM, and so did Pa when he smacked his hands together hard and laughed. &#8220;That John Wayne is something else. And so is those pics. I&#8217;d climb many a mountain for a view like that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I looked at his legs and his walking stick and said &#8220;You should climb it one day with me,&#8221; and he looked at me and grinned and said, &#8220;I will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>William C Powell (1936-2016)<br \/>\nFarmer, Rabbitman<br \/>\nFrom Way Back<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said, &#8220;You reckon that&#8217;s what Heaven looks like?&#8221; I said, &#8220;It ought to, I climbed high enough.&#8221; Then he stuck a fireball in his mouth and turned back to the TV and said &#8220;Watch this right here.&#8221; And that son of Katie Elder put dynamite under a bridge and it went BOOM, and so<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}