{"id":2273,"date":"2018-05-24T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:35:36","slug":"dang-dang-dang-pick-a-better-four-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/dang-dang-dang-pick-a-better-four-letter-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Dang, Dang, Dang\u2026..pick a better four letter word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve raised one kid. \u00a0And, at times, I wonder if I\/he\/we will survive this next one. \u00a0He&#8217;s not a bad kid. \u00a0He&#8217;s a good kid that has his head buried in his ass. \u00a0It is so deep that he doesn&#8217;t know how to fix it. \u00a0I&#8217;m sick of paying deductibles, gas bills and stuff not getting done right. \u00a0And no, I have not used the word dang very much lately.<\/p>\n<p>I have been reminded of a Jerry Clower story quite a bit lately. \u00a0Brief version&#8211;Jerry and his relatives were hunting raccoons. \u00a0One of them ended up climbing a tree to knock a coon out. \u00a0Except, it wasn&#8217;t a raccoon. \u00a0It was \u00a0bobcat. \u00a0The guy and the cat were fighting up in the tree. \u00a0He hollered down, &#8220;Shoot it!&#8221; \u00a0 His kin yelled back, &#8220;But we might hit you instead of the cat!&#8221; \u00a0He yelled back, &#8220;Just shoot up in here amongst us. \u00a0You will surely hit one or the other. \u00a0One of us has got to have some relief.&#8221; \u00a0I&#8217;m to that point.<\/p>\n<p>But dang it. \u00a0I ended this evening watching a re-run concert (NO politics) of a tribute to Johnny Cash. \u00a0They ended it with The Highwaymen, or what&#8217;s left of them, playing &#8220;the highwaymen&#8221;. \u00a0What could be cooler than being on stage, playing with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. \u00a0Well, being Shooter Jennings and playing your dad&#8217;s part. \u00a0What could be cooler than cool? \u00a0Jamey Johnson playing on a stage with Willie, Kris, Waylon&#8217;s son and getting to play Johnny Cash&#8217; part at the tribute to Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, a good song with a bit of chill on the rocks can help the dang go away. \u00a0That and don&#8217;t let that dang 17 year old mental midget near me till tomorrow. \u00a0DANG!!<\/p>\n<p>DANG!!! The power went off last night as I was trying to hit the publish button. \u00a0The WIND, the DANG wind went to howling and then and then it started raining. \u00a0It actually rained almost an inch! \u00a0Finally. \u00a0Dang! I spent the morning dumping water out of troughs and feed pans. \u00a0I was actually in a good mood about it. \u00a0Now, I get to spend time in a tractor. \u00a0And since it rained, in a day or two, I will get to doctor little goats with the shits. \u00a0Dang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve raised one kid. \u00a0And, at times, I wonder if I\/he\/we will survive this next one. \u00a0He&#8217;s not a bad kid. \u00a0He&#8217;s a good kid that has his head buried in his ass. \u00a0It is so deep that he doesn&#8217;t know how to fix it. \u00a0I&#8217;m sick of paying deductibles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}