{"id":405,"date":"2004-10-18T06:43:50","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=405"},"modified":"2006-10-18T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T21:28:45","slug":"the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/10\/18\/the-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chippy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/chippy.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"417\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nNot long ago, I reached into my garbage can to grab the bag of bird food (black oil sunflower seeds), only to be confronted by a toothy woodchuck. This time,  the critter was far more benign.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/chippy_lrg.html\">View much closer image<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As we were driving to NH to see the Finlays, Flo told us that by raising her voice, she prevented one of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inmates\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from throwing, not passing, a full container of cream at her dinner companion. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can you see the headlines?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Flo asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Elderly in food fight at Concord Park.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u009dt quite understand why the near toss, to a simple request, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pass the cream\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (this was before the Patriot\u00e2\u20ac\u009ds game), and neither did Flo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, I reached into my garbage can to grab the bag of bird food (black oil sunflower seeds), only to be confronted by a toothy woodchuck. This time, the critter was far more benign. View much closer image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/10\/18\/the-good-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}