{"id":853,"date":"2021-09-28T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/?p=853"},"modified":"2021-09-28T08:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T12:25:44","slug":"twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Piedmont-837x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-686\" srcset=\"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Piedmont-837x1024.jpg 837w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Piedmont-scaled-416x509.jpg 416w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Piedmont-245x300.jpg 245w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Piedmont-768x939.jpg 768w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Piedmont-1256x1536.jpg 1256w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Piedmont-1675x2048.jpg 1675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Their brother sometimes comes with them\nBut mostly, they come alone--just the two of them.\nThey are getting braver which may not be a good thing, in the end.\nThey don't startle at every sound.\nThe man next door walks down his driveway towards the garbage cans.\nThe cans make a noise as he tosses in his trash.\nThey glance his way for a moment, then continue grazing.\nThey are not bothered by the cardinals and chickadees feeding.\nOne of them watches the feeder swing, perhaps interested in the seeds.\n\nWhen the older brother, born the year before them, comes, he stands back and watches. He might eat a kernel of corn. I've seen him lick them and clean their ears--copying what their mother did for them. \n\nThey lick each other now that she's gone.\n\nSomeone said they saw a deer carcass at the abandoned house on Traylor road. Buzzards were hovering around. \nIt was probably their mother--she's been absent for two weeks now.\nShe probably went there to die quietly.\n\nThe fawns will survive the coming winter. They are putting on weight. \nI put out the corn everyday for them.\n\n(c) Glenda Kotchish 9\/28\/2021<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their brother sometimes comes with them But mostly, they come alone&#8211;just the two of them. They are getting braver which may not be a good thing, in the end. They don&#8217;t startle at every sound. The man next door walks down his driveway towards the garbage cans. The cans make a noise as he tosses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[109,198,199,167],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-story","tag-death","tag-deer","tag-fawns","tag-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}