{"id":343,"date":"2005-08-16T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/08\/coyotes-dentists-and-fish\/"},"modified":"2005-08-16T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T07:46:00","slug":"coyotes-dentists-and-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/08\/coyotes-dentists-and-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyotes, Dentists and Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/cols2\/head_in_clouds.jpg\" align=left>I&#8217;ve been enjoying writing about creatures so far, though anyone looking for an intellectual treatise on the subject will be sadly disappointed, as always I write from the inside out, from the centre of my experience and memories. Before the month is out though, I may yet attempt to write  discursively upon such lofty symbols as the Eagle or the Snake.. or perhaps I will just listen to Joni Mitchell, who has done that so very well &#8211; I recommend <i>Coyote<\/i> as a start point for those unfamiliar with her work.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, damn it, my own animal nature is revealing itself, and that is partly the reason for my choice of monthly subject. <\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.thejump.net\/id\/more-fish\/sheepshead-minnow.jpg\" align=right>Our heads may be in the clouds but our feet are of clay. I only wish my feet were of Cassius Clay, and then I would have five-times champion of the world boxing feet. My head is very shortly (less than one hour&#8217;s time) to be not in the clouds but in a dentist&#8217;s chair &#8211; another thing I am phobic about, along with certain bugs, and food-poisoning. Hello Mr Root Canal Specialist, I won&#8217;t say, please be gentle with me, I am 43, with the charm of a fully grown mentalist, but the sensibility of a minnow.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me well, I need it, for this may prove to be not just utterly loathesome and painful, but fucking expensive to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been enjoying writing about creatures so far, though anyone looking for an intellectual treatise on the subject will be sadly disappointed, as always I write from the inside out, from the centre of my experience and memories. Before the month is out though, I may yet attempt to write discursively upon such lofty symbols [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}