{"id":459,"date":"2012-12-10T17:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:50:39","slug":"the-wolf-and-death-from-the-lion-and-the-aardvark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/the-wolf-and-death-from-the-lion-and-the-aardvark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wolf and Death from The Lion and the Aardvark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wolf, old and alone, spent the better part of a week tracking a herd of bison, waiting for the youngest one to succumb to the heat of the unusually long summer. He followed them into a valley, where the scent of the flowers and fruit and trees&#8211;verily the very scent of Life&#8211; weighed down the breeze with a chorus of musks, spices, and amber. Birds and insects zipped about. His prey stopped at a watering hole and joined a menagerie of beasts and drank. Safe in their numbers, they no longer fretted that the wolf would claim a single member of their herd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An extract from &#8216;The Wolf and Death&#8217; by Julia Bond Ellingboe from <a title=\"The Lion and The Aardvark\" href=\"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/?p=251\">The Lion and the Aardvark<\/a><a title=\"The Lion and The Aardvark\" href=\"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/?p=251\"><\/a>, now in all good bookshops. This illustration is one of ten in the book by Rachel Kahn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The Wolf and Death\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/files\/StoneSkinPress\/Wolf_and_Death.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"663\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolf, old and alone, spent the better part of a week tracking a herd of bison, waiting for the youngest one to succumb to the heat of the unusually long summer. He followed them into a valley, where the scent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/the-wolf-and-death-from-the-lion-and-the-aardvark\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19,26],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aesop","tag-the-lion-and-the-aardvark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}