{"id":3939,"date":"2012-08-15T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3939"},"modified":"2012-08-15T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:06:44","slug":"ox-cart-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/ox-cart-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ox Cart Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October of the year,<br \/>\nhe counts potatoes dug from the brown field,<br \/>\ncounting the seed, counting<br \/>\nthe cellar\u2019s portion out,<br \/>\nand bags the rest on the cart\u2019s floor.<\/p>\n<p>He packs wool sheared in April, honey<br \/>\nin combs, linen, leather<br \/>\ntanned from deerhide,<br \/>\nand vinegar in a barrel<br \/>\nhooped by hand at the forge\u2019s fire.<\/p>\n<p>He walks by his ox\u2019s head, ten days<br \/>\nto Portsmouth Market, and sells potatoes,<br \/>\nand the bag that carried potatoes,<br \/>\nflaxseed, birch brooms, maple sugar, goose<br \/>\nfeathers, yarn.<\/p>\n<p>When the cart is empty he sells the cart.<br \/>\nWhen the cart is sold he sells the ox,<br \/>\nharness and yoke, and walks<br \/>\nhome, his pockets heavy<br \/>\nwith the year\u2019s coin for salt and taxes,<\/p>\n<p>and at home by fire\u2019s light in November cold<br \/>\nstitches new harness<br \/>\nfor next year\u2019s ox in the barn,<br \/>\nand carves the yoke, and saw planks<br \/>\nbuilding the cart again.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Donald Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3939\" data-postid=\"3939\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3939 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October of the year, he counts potatoes dug from the brown field, counting the seed, counting the cellar\u2019s portion out, and bags the rest on the cart\u2019s floor. He packs wool sheared in April, honey in combs, linen, leather tanned from deerhide, and vinegar in a barrel hooped by hand at the forge\u2019s fire. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3939\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}