{"id":277,"date":"2023-11-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=277&preview=true&preview_id=277"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:33:16","slug":"chapter-8-naming-the-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/chapter-8-naming-the-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8: Naming the cubs!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mother lion did want me to name her and her cubs! First, I got to know each one, to find out what name would suit them. The shy one who had stayed in the cave for a while, the really beautiful one, I thought the name Taylor would suit her best. Once Taylor came out of her shell, she was really sweet and fun to play with. The mother I named Andrea. There was a feisty little cub I named Swifty, because he was full of energy. And boy, he could run fast!<\/em>\u00a0 I wondered what to name the other girl cub. I wondered if I should name her after her mother, Andrea, but I had no clue. Perhaps Kioshi (pronounced ki-O-she) might be a good name. It was a word from the old language, Kinosho, that meant faith, hope, kindness, loyalty, and strength, and, well, a lot of good things like that. I asked Gale what he thought, but he didn’t really have much opinion until I told him it was a word from the old language. He really loves talking about and learning about the old language. I guessed it was time for a history lesson. Hooray. Did you get the sarcasm. I’ll show you in a minute.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mother lion did want me to name her and her cubs! First, I got to know each one, to find out what name would suit them. The shy one who had stayed in the cave for a while, the really beautiful one, I thought the name Taylor would suit her best. Once Taylor came […]<\/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-277","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\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}