{"id":4015,"date":"2012-08-16T12:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4015"},"modified":"2012-08-16T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:17:13","slug":"mina-bells-cows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mina-bells-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Mina Bell&#8217;s Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O where are Mina Bell\u2019s cows who gave no milk<br \/>\nand grazed on her dead husband\u2019s farm?<br \/>\nEach day she walked with them into the field,<br \/>\nloving their swayback dreaminess more<br \/>\nthan the quickness of any dog or chicken.<br \/>\nEach night she brought them grain in the dim barn,<br \/>\nholding their breath in her hands.<br \/>\nO when the lightning struck Daisy and Bets,<br \/>\nher son dug such great holes in the yard<br \/>\nshe could not bear to watch him.<br \/>\nAnd when the baby, April, growing old<br \/>\nand wayward, fell down the hay chute,<br \/>\nMina just sat in the kitchen, crying \u201cApe,<br \/>\nApe,\u201d as if she called all three cows,<br \/>\nher walleyed girls who never would come home.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4015\" data-postid=\"4015\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4015 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O where are Mina Bell\u2019s cows who gave no milk and grazed on her dead husband\u2019s farm? Each day she walked with them into the field, loving their swayback dreaminess more than the quickness of any dog or chicken. Each night she brought them grain in the dim barn, holding their breath in her hands. [&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\/4015"}],"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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4015\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}