{"id":491,"date":"2016-03-29T19:38:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T02:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2016-03-29T19:38:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T02:38:49","slug":"fifty-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who know me understand that sometimes unusual thoughts come out of my brain onto paper. My friends also know that I have been known to express fervent opinions on &#8220;political&#8221; matters.<\/p>\n<p>When the news broke that the State of Alaska had decided to limit moose harvest to bulls with 50 inch + rack, I immediately pictured myself on a stepladder, with a cloth tape measure like I use for sewing, scrambling to measure the breadth of the antler while coaxing the rowdy beast to stay still so I could complete my task.<\/p>\n<p>And I have to admit that I never hunted moose again. In a scope, in the woods, in the rain &#8211; swatting mosquitos and up to your knees in mud &#8211; all big antlers look like they&#8217;re 50 inches! Maybe that was their aim &#8211; no pun intended &#8211; to cut down on moose hunting altogether.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fifty-Plus.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-492\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-492\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fifty-Plus.jpg\" alt=\"Song of the Heart excerpt\" width=\"439\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fifty-Plus.jpg 439w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fifty-Plus-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who know me understand that sometimes unusual thoughts come out of my brain onto paper. My friends also know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=491\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fifty Plus<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66],"tags":[82,80,17,81],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songheart","tag-alaska-wildlife","tag-moose-hunting","tag-mountain-living","tag-wildlife-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}