{"id":856,"date":"2021-11-19T06:31:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/?p=856"},"modified":"2021-11-19T06:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T11:31:21","slug":"the-old-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/the-old-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/polar-fox-3041012_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-857\" srcset=\"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/polar-fox-3041012_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/polar-fox-3041012_1920-416x277.jpg 416w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/polar-fox-3041012_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/polar-fox-3041012_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/polar-fox-3041012_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/polar-fox-3041012_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She is a white fox now and hidden from view. It\u2019s hard to see her, especially on misty, foggy days. But she\u2019s there, white, silver, vixen and wise. She knows all the tricks, old and newly invented; so beware when she slips across the corner of your vision. She\u2019s up to something, to be sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In yonder year she was red and blazed like the sun. A shot, a comet, a blast of color she was, slipping in and out of the hen house, under the fence, through the hedge, into the woods. Her long legs admired, the swish of her tail\u2013envied. Her head held high, she pranced about, skipping across the brook, into the stream, swimming, bounding into the river\u2013currents ignored\u2013she emerged\u2013on top\u2013always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is all this, still. She\u2019s bold, she\u2019s bright but ignored. You\u2019ve been warned. If you see her, you might not, you probably won\u2019t but she\u2019s stirring the pot, she making things happen, she\u2019s molding you and you have no clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Glenda Kotchish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 25, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is a white fox now and hidden from view. It\u2019s hard to see her, especially on misty, foggy days. But she\u2019s there, white, silver, vixen and wise. She knows all the tricks, old and newly invented; so beware when she slips across the corner of your vision. She\u2019s up to something, to be sure. [&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":[74,200,201,77],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-story","tag-aging","tag-fox","tag-old","tag-short-short"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}