{"id":6321,"date":"2014-03-25T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2014-03-25T06:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T11:11:26","slug":"my-dear-old-friend-and-confidant-mlle-jenny-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6321","title":{"rendered":"My dear old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>purchased for me, a scrip to <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/\">&#8220;Garden and Gun&#8221;<\/a> magazine. I have to observe, it is finely done and beautiful to look at, and I am confident I will look forward to receiving it each month. <\/p>\n<p>It shows every sign of being the kind of magazine that details what we northerners might think- accurately or inaccurately- as &#8220;old southern&#8221;. Big antebellum homes with kennels full of field trial champions. Shooting brakes and Kentucky colonels. <\/p>\n<p>For the most part, I suppose, this is a fantasy- but it&#8217;s still an interesting one. And reading the magazine will be enjoyable in the way owning a lottery ticket is enjoyable- you can imagine what it would be like to sit in the shade of a huge porch and gaze out over giant lawns, planning lavish dinner parties and inviting friends over for a couple hundred rounds of clays, admiring the bespoke shotguns and smoking cigars after dinner over smooth local bourbons. Don&#8217;t think about it being a fantasy and it will be plenty enough to put a smile on your face as you drift off to sleep, lottery ticket under your pocketknife on the night stand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>purchased for me, a scrip to &#8220;Garden and Gun&#8221; magazine. I have to observe, it is finely done and beautiful to look at, and I am confident I will look forward to receiving it each month. It shows every sign of being the kind of magazine that details what we northerners might think- accurately or [&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-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321"}],"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=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}