{"id":4498,"date":"2011-07-12T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2011-07-12T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:39:05","slug":"on-a-number-of-occasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4498","title":{"rendered":"On a number of occasions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>being the kind of guy who prefers not to climb a ladder while clutching a running chainsaw, I have used a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northerntool.com\/shop\/tools\/product_12415_12415\"> rope saw<\/a> to drop branches. <\/p>\n<p>I was in the process of doing this on a rather large tree for some friends, and since they were particular what branches they wanted dropped and where, i was having to be extra careful where my rope saw cut. <\/p>\n<p>I have zero athletic abilities- I cannot throw a stone at the broadside of a barn, from the inside. So I had a rubber ball on a fishline in a Zebco 202 taped to the bottom of a Wrist Rocket. <\/p>\n<p>At some height, though, the line would get caught so i switched to a little baggie with sand in it, which helped, but not quite enough. So I had some shotshells in the truck, and I cut them open to take out five or six ounces of lead #6 birdshot. <\/p>\n<p>This worked perfectly, and I cut down several limbs. The last one, however, was high. So I stood back, took aim, and shot my little bag of lead shot over the branch. <\/p>\n<p>A car horn or backfire distracted  me momentarily<br \/>\nAnd the bag of lead shot clocked me in the back of the head like a sap. It laid me out like a mackerel, and when I woke up it was getting dark. <\/p>\n<p>I cut down the branch and went home. <\/p>\n<p>I have always been the person I should fear most. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>being the kind of guy who prefers not to climb a ladder while clutching a running chainsaw, I have used a rope saw to drop branches. I was in the process of doing this on a rather large tree for some friends, and since they were particular what branches they wanted dropped and where, i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}