{"id":10237,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10237-once-a-hunter","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10237","headline":"Once a Hunter","content":"Many years ago, I was a hunter.\r\nInto the woods we would saunter,\r\nLooking for Elk, on this particular date,\r\nWhich was opening season, in Washington State.\r\nWalking quietly, through forest and glen,\r\nThis tested our manhood, way back then.\r\nMoving along, I came to a dense thicket,\r\nSo heavy with trees, brush, thick like a wicket.\r\nMoving along, as quietly as you please\r\nSometimes I had to get down on my knees.\r\nHead down and moving quite slow,\r\nI looked up, into the eyes of a Doe.\r\nWe were both surprised to see another\r\nAnd we stopped to stare at each other.\r\nSlowly, quite slowly, the Doe moved away.\r\nShe was the only animal I saw on that day.\r\nAnother day of not getting any meat\r\nBut a memory of encounter, was a treat.","content_plain":"Many years ago, I was a hunter.\r\nInto the woods we would saunter,\r\nLooking for Elk, on this particular date,\r\nWhich was opening season, in Washington State.\r\nWalking quietly, through forest and glen,\r\nThis tested our manhood, way back then.\r\nMoving along, I came to a dense thicket,\r\nSo heavy with trees, brush, thick like a wicket.\r\nMoving along, as quietly as you please\r\nSometimes I had to get down on my knees.\r\nHead down and moving quite slow,\r\nI looked up, into the eyes of a Doe.\r\nWe were both surprised to see another\r\nAnd we stopped to stare at each other.\r\nSlowly, quite slowly, the Doe moved away.\r\nShe was the only animal I saw on that day.\r\nAnother day of not getting any meat\r\nBut a memory of encounter, was a treat.","published_at":"2019-05-23T16:40:54-07:00","updated_at":"2022-06-02T15:12:21-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with MFish on Kudos 365. View their post published May/23/2019 on Humor. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":8,"categories":[{"name":"Humor","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/915-humor"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10237-once-a-hunter","headline":"Once a Hunter","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"datePublished":"2019-05-23T16:40:54-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":8}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Humor","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/915-humor"}]}}