{"id":275,"date":"2023-11-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=275&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=275"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:25:46","slug":"chapter-7-the-feastings-and-festivities-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/chapter-7-the-feastings-and-festivities-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 7: The Feastings and Festivities begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#666666;font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:18pt\">I offered to cook the fish and catch more. The lions accepted the offer gratefully. Me and Gale collected some firewood for the fire. Since Gale didn&#8217;t know how to start a fire, I had to start it with a rock and a stick. Turns out not only my legs are fast and strong, because somehow, I lit a fire for the fish. Me and Gale worked vigorously to carve and cut some wood into an intricate patterned pot for putting the fish into. I also made a little wooden toy for each of the lion cubs. They <em>loved <\/em>it! The shy little one that had stayed back in the cave for the most part came out, and she was <em>beautiful!<\/em> Her coat shone golden red in the setting sun, and her fur was so <em>thick <\/em>and <em>soft!<\/em> Especially her ears. I wondered if I could name the cubs. The mother lion, seemingly reading my mind, spoke in leprechaun to me. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any names, we were never named by our parents because they didn&#8217;t care\u2026&#8221; she seemed sad, and I didn&#8217;t like that. But I couldn&#8217;t help what came out of my mouth next. &#8220;But if you&#8217;re so\u2026 well, upset about that, than why didn&#8217;t you name your cubs?The answer was unclear to me at the moment, but when the mother lion answered, it seemed like a duh question. &#8220;Well, erm\u2026. I didn&#8217;t know <em>what <\/em>to name them\u2026 I never interacted with cubs that had names\u2026&#8221; The mother lion seemed frustrated and embarrassed. Immediately I felt bad. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry\u2026 I didn&#8217;t mean to put you in that spot\u2026 To make up, would you like me to name you and your cubs?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I offered to cook the fish and catch more. The lions accepted the offer gratefully. Me and Gale collected some firewood for the fire. Since Gale didn&#8217;t know how to start a fire, I had to start it with a rock and a stick. Turns out not only my legs are fast and strong, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55],"tags":[36,18,87,11],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-writing-samples","tag-carolyn","tag-fiction","tag-pot-of-gold","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}