{"id":4976,"date":"2017-09-20T19:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:47:13","slug":"duffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/duffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of these farmlet residents fell into the stream and couldn’t get out, the other one had to jump in and assist.<\/p>\n

\"NIna<\/a>

The Forbearing Husband maintains a sanguine countenance in the face of adversity<\/p><\/div>\n

No prizes for guessing which one is which. Let’s just say that the person who executed the rescue ended up soaked to the waist and sloshing around in\u00a0gumboots<\/a>\u00a0full of water, while the duffer who fell in remains confident that\u00a0nothing bad will ever happen to her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ok, pop quiz<\/a>… Who amongst The Readership recognises this quote: “BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN”*? Let me know in the comments. Does knowing this quote mark me out as an old fogey? Let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n

* Caps lock and lack of punctuation original to the quote.<\/p>\n

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One of these farmlet residents fell into the stream and couldn’t get out, the other one had to jump in and assist. No prizes for guessing which one is which. Let’s just say that the person who executed the rescue… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-stream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}