{"id":972,"date":"2012-12-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:36","slug":"bullshot-john-oliver-hodges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-john-oliver-hodges\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: John Oliver Hodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JH:<\/strong> Our man in &#8220;Pollen&#8221; seems proud of his Cherokee blood; what kind of ancestry would you most like to have?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOH:<\/strong> I would love to be a full-blooded Cherokee maiden in distress, it is true, but only while at the same time living my life as a poor overworked tomato farmer with six kids and a starving wife in some little known rural hamlet in Texas.\u00a0\u00a0That would be great, if I were those people.\u00a0\u00a0As those people I would live ignored, exploited, pitied or despised, while all the while being a black tyke with tall hair in a powder blue shack in Birmingham.\u00a0\u00a0Lately I\u2019ve wished pretty heartily for my ancestry to be Chinese, but each day when I wake up I find that I am only the same tall white guy that I\u2019ve always been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of this week&#8217;s &#8220;Pollen&#8221; talks ancestry and wishful thinking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","writer-jarrett-haley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17633,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/17633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}