{"id":185,"date":"2006-02-27T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T18:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2006-02-27T11:50:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T18:50:34","slug":"doggerel-bantering-in-the-clover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"doggerel bantering in the clover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think my days have compressed. We joined a gym nearby, where a friend of mine teaches yoga, and I&#8217;ve found myself going there in the evenings on a daily basis. This, in itself, is a good thing. But it cuts into my writing time. Fortunately, however, we still find time to paint.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9745.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9745.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9745-tm.jpg\" height=\"262\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 9745\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe rode down to the lake today. There were hints that March winds were about to blow, that it was on the horizon. I brought a crinkly nylon kite and let Ford have his first go at flying solo. But his eyes were reddish, and snot dangled from his nose, quivering in the breeze. I didn&#8217;t have kleenex, so my shirt sufficed. Dogs galloped in arcs around us, hollow barks ran through the canyon. I discovered that my children have become afraid of dogs since we sent ours to grandma. Ford cried when a yellow lab pup jumped up and licked him, bumping Ford&#8217;s lip and making it bleed. Then there was bloody drool dangling in the breeze, suspended, as Chas shrieked like an alarmed chimpanzee.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9890.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9890.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9890-tm.jpg\" height=\"262\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 9890\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9896.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9896.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9896-tm.jpg\" height=\"262\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 9896\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClover is everywhere. The sweet smell reminds me of baseball and bee stings, afternoons napping in the sunny infirmary with a swollen hand resting on my chest.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9898-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9898-1.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_9898-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"262\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 9898-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my days have compressed. We joined a gym nearby, where a friend of mine teaches yoga, and I&#8217;ve found myself going there in the evenings on a daily basis. This, in itself, is a good thing. But it cuts into my writing time. Fortunately, however, we still find time to paint. We rode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-seeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}