{"id":12410,"date":"2012-03-13T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=12410"},"modified":"2012-03-13T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T07:05:48","slug":"ugsome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/12410","title":{"rendered":"Ugsome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWalking back and forth between buildings here, one never knows what (or who) might come running\u00a0straight at you\u2014from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1014\">chickens<\/a>, to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/11487\">Rascal<\/a>, a renegade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/3827\">cow<\/a>\u00a0or two, and\u00a0these days &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00a0MOOSE. I think our abundant apple crop this year (many still left frozen to the trees) are too much of a temptation.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, we simply deer-in-the-headlights one another and go on about our day, but yesterday, one got a little spooked or confused, and came running towards me. The fella below wasn&#8217;t the culprit, but you get\u00a0the idea of their size, nothin&#8217; you&#8217;d want to tango with.<\/p>\n<p>My encounter was a bit ugsome. Ugh. Some &#8220;people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-12413\" title=\"moose-0290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/moose-0290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Say it with me: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/audio.php?file=ugsome01&amp;word=ugsome&amp;text=\\%3Cspan%20class%3D%22unicode%22%3E%CB%88%3C%2Fspan%3E%C9%99g-s%C9%99m\">ugsome<\/a><br \/>\n(ugg&#8217;-sum) adj. frightful, loathsome [from Middle English uggen &#8220;to fear, or inspire fear&#8221;].\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking back and forth between buildings here, one never knows what (or who) might come running\u00a0straight at you\u2014from\u00a0chickens, to\u00a0Rascal, a renegade cow\u00a0or two, and\u00a0these days &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/12410\">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":[370,596,747,923],"class_list":["post-12410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-moose","tag-rascal","tag-ugsome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410","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=12410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}