{"id":578,"date":"2012-08-30T07:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=578"},"modified":"2012-08-30T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:23:26","slug":"a-metaphor-made-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"A Metaphor Made Flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-579\" title=\"Snake in the Grass\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/snakeGrass1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/snakeGrass1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/snakeGrass1.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I almost stepped on this snake, there in the grass of my lawn.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what the little bugger was up to, but I assume it was no good, given that he was a snake in the grass and all (presumably he is still a snake but whether his is in the grass at the moment I can&#8217;t say).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another view, in case the first was not clear:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-580\" title=\"Snake in the Grass, Close Up\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/snakeGrass2-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/snakeGrass2-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/snakeGrass2.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just hope I don&#8217;t run across any cat metaphors made real, because most of them are pretty unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I almost stepped on this snake, there in the grass of my lawn.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what the little bugger was up to, but I assume it was no good, given that he was a snake in the grass and all (presumably he is still a snake but whether his is in the grass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}