{"id":227,"date":"2010-01-25T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=227"},"modified":"2010-01-25T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:39:56","slug":"the-yards-of-ellisville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"The Yards of Ellisville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a particularly frightening piece of yard art that I encounter on my walks around town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4305409412\/\" title=\"IMG_1049 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4035\/4305409412_7a69e117ee.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_1049\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then I get to look at this and feel better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4304671949\/\" title=\"IMG_1055 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4031\/4304671949_6849f68c40.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_1055\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is, strangely enough on the same street as this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4304667389\/\" title=\"IMG_1051 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2741\/4304667389_1354882f09.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" alt=\"IMG_1051\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I think my favorite yard decoration in Ellisville is this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4305570012\/\" title=\"IMG_0247 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4048\/4305570012_f414ae4a33.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_0247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=170\">the ducks on the school lake<\/a> the same day I took that shot.  Now every time I walk past the yard I think, &#8220;Duck, duck, moose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you mention living in a small town in the South, people inevitably make a few Andy Griffith jokes.  That&#8217;s okay.  Parts of Ellisville really do resemble Mayberry.  But if Aunt Bee lives in one house, Wednesday Addams lives next door.  The charm of it is this is not a cookie cutter town.  Every street, every house, every yard has its own character.  There&#8217;s a lot to be said for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a particularly frightening piece of yard art that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}