{"id":3841,"date":"2013-09-06T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2013-09-06T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:59:24","slug":"the-fame-of-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"The fame of chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 13 miles]<\/p>\n<p>My wife is a published author(ess) now.\u00a0 Some people that she knows, somehow, started a local magazine and she submitted an article about her experience with back-yard chickens.<\/p>\n<p>She researched the subject quite a bit.\u00a0 They published her article.<\/p>\n<p>Now she has another article about running.<\/p>\n<p>And, she has started a series of articles about her chickens.\u00a0 One of them is named Ed Stakrispie, and, so the story goes, Ed is a detective.\u00a0 So she has written a series of articles about the detective hen.\u00a0 I think she modeled it somewhat after Sherlock Holmes and Watson because Ed also has a sidekick hen.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote the articles aimed at children.\u00a0 She turned to my mother for some technical advice, what words to use, etc.\u00a0 My mother was a long-time elementary school teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now we recently got our first story through the grape vine about a young &#8220;fan&#8221; of the Ed Stakrispie Detective Hen stories.\u00a0 So I started a facebook page.\u00a0 No sign of the kiddies yet on facebook.\u00a0 Maybe they keep kiddies off of facebook anyway, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken some pictures of Ed and the other chickens.\u00a0 A couple of the best ones she submitted to the magazine with her articles.\u00a0 But some of the others I am posting on the facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>My wife&#8217;s chickens are famous.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 13 miles] My wife is a published author(ess) now.\u00a0 Some people that she knows, somehow, started a local magazine and she submitted an article about her experience with back-yard chickens. She researched the subject quite a bit.\u00a0 They published her article. Now she has another article about running. And, she has started a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}