{"id":573,"date":"2026-07-08T07:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=573"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:18:18","slug":"a-chance-encounter-southeast-of-the-big-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"A Chance Encounter Southeast of the Big House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wrote this on my May retreat too. Was walking on a trail and at the end of it was a the old &#8220;Cowboy Cemetery&#8221; where the Kenedy family and those who lived\/worked on the ranch would be buried. Had an idea sorta C. S. Lewisish and had fun writing it. What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/10000078195148158692178221043-456x1024.png?resize=456%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/10000078195148158692178221043.png?resize=456%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 456w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/10000078195148158692178221043.png?resize=134%2C300&amp;ssl=1 134w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/10000078195148158692178221043.png?resize=768%2C1724&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/10000078195148158692178221043.png?resize=684%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/10000078195148158692178221043.png?w=891&amp;ssl=1 891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrote this on my May retreat too. Was walking on a trail and at the end of it was a the old &#8220;Cowboy Cemetery&#8221; where the Kenedy family and those who lived\/worked on the ranch would be buried. Had an idea sorta C. S. Lewisish and had fun writing it. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}