{"id":24129,"date":"2019-01-18T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24129"},"modified":"2019-01-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:30:00","slug":"book-report-croutons-on-a-cow-pie-by-baxter-black-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/book-report-croutons-on-a-cow-pie-by-baxter-black-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Croutons on a Cow Pie<\/i> by Baxter Black (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/croutonsonacowpie.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">My first exposure to Baxter Black was a folksy column that ran weekly in the <em>Republic Monitor<\/em>, the weekly paper in the next town over, when I first moved to southwest Missouri.  He talked about being a cowboy and humorous anecdotes about the same.  However, the paper dropped the column some years ago, likely as a cost-saving move.  Or perhaps Baxter retired.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Black first became known as a cowboy poet in the 1980s, and this collection of poems and an anecdote\/story or two comes from that era.  They&#8217;re fun to read like Ogden Nash, but with less reliance on vernacular or funny spellings.  It&#8217;s about being a cowboy and whatnot, but the topic matter doesn&#8217;t detract from the fun of it.  Perhaps it adds a bit to it.<\/p>\n<p>The book also features cartoonish illustrations by Don Gill and Bob Black that accompany the poems and illustrate the stories therein.  They add to it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t completely browse this book during football games because I came to a block of prose that looked like a short story, but it was really just a page of prose amid the lyrics.  Still, it&#8217;s off my sofa-side table.<\/p>\n<p>And if I run across more of Baxter Black in the future, I&#8217;ll be sure to pick it up.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first exposure to Baxter Black was a folksy column that ran weekly in the Republic Monitor, the weekly paper in the next town over, when I first moved to southwest Missouri. He talked about being a cowboy and humorous anecdotes about the same. However, the paper dropped the column some years ago, likely as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129","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=24129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24130,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions\/24130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}