{"id":84,"date":"2006-01-18T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/the-coppertop-kids\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T20:34:44","slug":"the-coppertop-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/the-coppertop-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"the coppertop kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura was mean and pugnacious.  Not the way most children are.  She didn&#8217;t play practical jokes on busybody aunts or pull the ears of annoying cousins like I sometimes did.  She told families of their father&#8217;s indiscretions and then wondered aloud in other people&#8217;s company why the children were so ugly and the mothers so dim.  She also stole my bike. <\/p>\n<p>Carol was fat.  A big lopsided ball of flesh with little beady eyes and bad skin.  Laura said too much.  Carol didn&#8217;t say enough.  She kept hush when the former blamed the drowning of a neighbours cat on Dewey, even though she saw her sister put the animal into a plastic bag and throw it in the creek.  Carol ate crawdads.  Raw. <\/p>\n<p>Alice had red hair.  Redder than her siblings.  She wore it protruding from either side of her head in imaginative cartoon style pigtails.  There was nothing else remarkable about her. <\/p>\n<p>Dewey said if I didn&#8217;t have anything else to be thankful for, i ought to be thankful I hadn&#8217;t come from that bunch.  I&#8217;d be a fat, copper-topped, bike thief and wouldn&#8217;t that be as bad as it got. <\/p>\n<p>Things being what they were, he said, I was a right attractive kid.  Couldn&#8217;t help but be&#8230;.falling from the same tree as he. <\/p>\n<p>I let him say it.  Because I reckoned he was right. <\/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>Laura was mean and pugnacious. Not the way most children are. She didn&#8217;t play practical jokes on busybody aunts or pull the ears of annoying cousins like I sometimes did. She told families of their father&#8217;s indiscretions and then wondered aloud in other people&#8217;s company why the children were so ugly and the mothers 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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}