{"id":10624,"date":"2012-01-29T00:05:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=10624"},"modified":"2012-01-29T00:05:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:05:55","slug":"mettlesome-maidens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/10624","title":{"rendered":"Mettlesome Maidens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGirlfriends, there are times when a woman&#8217;s mettle is tested, and I contend that only the most mettlesome maidens are up for the task of cow midwifery.\u00a0Do I get a medal? Nah. But after a long month of doting on Maizy (several times each night), I\u00a0get to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00a0fall in love with her brand new baby girl, Etta Jane. Aw, shucks &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-10645\" title=\"maizy_birth-etta-0194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/maizy_birth-etta-0194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a>Mettle<\/a> <em>(met-l)<\/em>: a noun meaning courage, spirit, inherent character<\/p>\n<p>Synonyms: valor, pluck, vigor, ardor, nerve, fiber (Can you say, \u201cfarmgirl\u201d?!)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to meddle, but have you ever been privy to a calving? If not, you can get a firsthand feel for this mettle-testing task by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.word-gems.com\/humor.herriot.html\">this passage from James Herriot&#8217;s classic, All Creatures Great and Small<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjanesfarm.org\/Recipes-Patterns-Instructions\/cow_birthing-01.asp\">here<\/a>, you&#8217;ll find the photos I took when my milk cow, Chocolate, gave birth to Molasses, several years ago.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girlfriends, there are times when a woman&#8217;s mettle is tested, and I contend that only the most mettlesome maidens are up for the task of cow midwifery.\u00a0Do I get a medal? Nah. But after a long month of doting on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/10624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/10624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[281,533,577],"class_list":["post-10624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-etta-jane","tag-maizy","tag-mettle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}