{"id":2030,"date":"2010-07-25T20:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2010-07-25T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T03:05:38","slug":"drop-the-oar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"DROP THE OAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4121\/4827479705_66c51b9253.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a fabulous weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Decided it was time to get out all the gear and head up to the lake.\u00a0\u00a0 It was\u00a0 a good choice for a weekend get away&#8230;EXACTLY what was needed.<\/p>\n<p>Did some fishing&#8230;caught nothing but some sun.<\/p>\n<p>At night I could hear something moving around in the woods and since that something wasn&#8217;t carrying a flashlight I knew it had to be an animal.<br \/>\n&#8220;Look, can you see the eyes?&#8221; I tried to show Lester.<br \/>\n&#8220;Nope.&#8221;<br \/>\nA couple of nights before we went camping we were running around the school trying to get a picture of a skunk so it wasn&#8217;t out of the ordinary that we would go investigate what made the loud sound.<br \/>\nI put the flashlight back out to where I thought I saw the eyes. Lester said, &#8220;No, to the left a little. Closer the bush that looks like antlers.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe bush ended up being an enormous 8 point buck. He wasn&#8217;t alone either, with his 8 point buck brother. It was amazing to watch them just chilling out there, somewhat unafraid of us humans.<\/p>\n<p>The second night was relaxing as well.\u00a0\u00a0 He started building the bonfire at 11am and kept looking at me for the okay to start it up.\u00a0 I caved in around 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning we were like a well trained packing team and got the truck loaded up and back on the road and headed for the nice hot showers at home.<br \/>\nTen minutes of scrubbing my feet and washing my hair about 3 times did the trick.<\/p>\n<p>Good memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a fabulous weekend! Decided it was time to get out all the gear and head up to the lake.\u00a0\u00a0 It was\u00a0 a good choice for a weekend get away&#8230;EXACTLY what was needed. Did some fishing&#8230;caught nothing but some sun. At night I could hear something moving around in the woods and since that something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}