{"id":6335,"date":"2010-11-13T07:02:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:47:00","slug":"by-the-light-of-the-silvery-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/11\/by-the-light-of-the-silvery-moon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"By the light of the silvery moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov10\/WaxingHalf5352.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov10\/WaxingHalf5352W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I remember my Mama and even my Papa singing me this song when I was little&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mama, Mama, put the cat out tonight<br \/>\nCat out tonight, cat out tonight<br \/>\nWorked all day, I&#8217;m gonna scat out tonight<br \/>\nAnd I won&#8217;t be home until dawn<\/p>\n<p>Gonna dance with a dolly with a hole in her stockin&#8217;<br \/>\nWhile our knees keep a-knockin&#8217; and our toes keep a-rockin&#8217;<br \/>\nDance with a dolly with a hole in her stockin&#8217;<br \/>\nDance by the light of the moon<\/p>\n<p>Gonna dance by the light of the moon<br \/>\nDance by the light of the moon<br \/>\nBy the light of the moon<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember the words as &#8220;by the light of the silvery moon&#8221;, but above is what turned up in my Google search.  Last night, as Karl and I returned up the driveway, the clouds gave way to let the waxing half shine through.  It was timely as my flashlight batteries were giving up the ghost.  The moon found a hole in the clouds as I was standing in the dark trying to shake out the last bit of juice.<\/p>\n<p>The light from the moon was in just the right spot to illuminate the dark part of the walk back.  I laughed out loud because the timing was funny &#8211; my flash went out and the moon came on.  Karl picked up my excitement&#8230;game on!  <\/p>\n<p>Our dance was a game of soccer in the sideyard&#8230;by the light of the silvery moon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember my Mama and even my Papa singing me this song when I was little&#8230; Mama, Mama, put the cat out tonight Cat out tonight, cat out tonight Worked all day, I&#8217;m gonna scat out tonight And I won&#8217;t be home until dawn Gonna dance with a dolly with a hole in her stockin&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-montana","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21699,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/21699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}