{"id":16830,"date":"2017-08-29T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2017-08-29T14:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:16:51","slug":"the-narrow-escapes-of-nogglestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/29\/the-narrow-escapes-of-nogglestead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Narrow Escapes of Nogglestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while taking my children to school, our loud music scattered a couple of deer a couple houses up from us, and as I drove slowly by them, on fled from the loud music pouring from my car.  Too small to leap the rail fence, it ran until it found a spot it could comfortably duck under.  My oldest son, whose name has five letters so he gets to ride in the front, and I chuckled about the deer not liking Billy Idol.  As I continued on the farm road, I was working on the humorous Facebook post I would make for it.<\/p>\n<p>We went over a couple of large hills, and as we came down the hill and towards Wilson&#8217;s Creek, I saw in the distance a car with its flashers on on the side of the road.  So I tried to figure out what was going on and slowed down.  The car started moving, and I saw beyond it a truck sitting with it&#8217;s flashers on behind it, and I looked to see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Then&#8230;.IT broke from the trees and the shadows on the right side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>A cow, escaped from a nearby pasture.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cow.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It moved into the left, oncoming traffic lane; apparently, it was some kind of English breed.  I stayed, behind it, driving slowly because it&#8217;s impolite to pass livestock on the right.  Also, I was not sure when it might decide to move into my lane.<\/p>\n<p>The cow ran from the loud music pouring from my car.  It was no longer Billy Idol; instead, it was Against the Current.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcvuYNhfj-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen a cow double-time it like that since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lb4asEv4jz8\" target=\"_new\"><em>Top Secret!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone came out on a four wheeler to get it, but I herded it into its pasture as it fled from me and turned left at the first drive.  Perhaps it wasn <em>its<\/em> pasture.  Perhaps it was just a quiet pasture, or at least a pasture that would be quiet when the loud Toyota was past.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how close it was; if I was going my normal rate of speed, would I have been past the cow when it broke onto the road, or would I just have been too close to stop in time?  Idle speculation at this point.<\/p>\n<p>But I did get a Facebook status out of it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/almosthitadeer.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to scrub it of context and submit it to &#8220;City People Are So Dumb!!!!&#8221; listicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while taking my children to school, our loud music scattered a couple of deer a couple houses up from us, and as I drove slowly by them, on fled from the loud music pouring from my car. Too small to leap the rail fence, it ran until it found a spot it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16833,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions\/16833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}