{"id":1373,"date":"2023-06-30T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2023-07-03T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T17:46:02","slug":"guest-blog-dallas-by-laura-j-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dallas&#8221;: Guest blog by Laura J. Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blogger&#8217;s note: see my post &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t all cats and dogs&#8221; for some backstory on my sister Mary&#8217;s pet skunk, whom she named Dallas. I must ask her where she got the inspiration for that name. You&#8217;ll notice in the stanzas ahead that it lends itself well to rhyme. To wit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image.png 572w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*&#8221;Alice&#8221; is the collective name our mother chose for the scary spiders that lived in and around the firewood pile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger&#8217;s note: see my post &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t all cats and dogs&#8221; for some backstory on my sister Mary&#8217;s pet skunk, whom she named Dallas. I must ask her where she got the inspiration for that name. You&#8217;ll notice in the stanzas ahead that it lends itself well to rhyme. To wit: *&#8221;Alice&#8221; is the collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[330,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogs","category-pets-and-other-wild-animals"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}