{"id":42443,"date":"2013-02-18T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=42443"},"modified":"2013-02-18T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:56:25","slug":"guns-a-necessary-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=42443","title":{"rendered":"Guns a Necessary Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>(Waterville, NY &#8211; Feb. 2013) Today, we had a potentially rabid raccoon in our horse barn. We got a gun and did him in.<\/p>\n<p>What could we have used if we didn&#8217;t have a gun? Scissors perhaps? Maybe knitting needles?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gretchen Maine, Waterville<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: (Waterville, NY &#8211; Feb. 2013) Today, we had a potentially rabid raccoon in our horse barn. We got a gun and did him in. What could we have used if we didn&#8217;t have a gun? Scissors perhaps? Maybe knitting needles? Gretchen Maine, Waterville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}