{"id":4043,"date":"2012-08-17T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4043"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:17:09","slug":"the-last-time-shorty-towers-fetched-the-cows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-last-time-shorty-towers-fetched-the-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the only story we have<br \/>\nof Shorty Towers, it is five o\u2019clock,<br \/>\nand he is dead drunk on his roof<br \/>\ndeciding to fetch the cows. How<br \/>\nhe got in this condition, shingling<br \/>\nall afternoon, is what the son-in-law,<br \/>\nthe one who made the back pasture<br \/>\ninto a golf course, can\u2019t figure out. So,<br \/>\nwith an expression somewhere between shock<br \/>\nand recognition, he just watches Shorty<br \/>\npull himself up to his not-so-<br \/>\nfull height, square his shoulders,<br \/>\nand sigh that small sigh as if caught<br \/>\nonce again in an invisible swarm<br \/>\nof bees. Let us imagine, in that moment<br \/>\njust before he turns to the roof\u2019s edge<br \/>\nand the abrupt end of the joke<br \/>\nwhich is all anyone thought to remember<br \/>\nof his life, Shorty is listening<br \/>\nto what seems to be the voice<br \/>\nof a lost heifer, just breaking<br \/>\nupward. And let us think that when he walks<br \/>\nwith such odd purpose down that hill<br \/>\njagged with shingles, he suddenly feels it<br \/>\nopen into the wide, incredibly green<br \/>\nmeadow where all the cows are.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4043\" data-postid=\"4043\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4043 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the only story we have of Shorty Towers, it is five o\u2019clock, and he is dead drunk on his roof deciding to fetch the cows. How he got in this condition, shingling all afternoon, is what the son-in-law, the one who made the back pasture into a golf course, can\u2019t figure out. So, with [&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\/4043"}],"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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4043\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}