{"id":1025007,"date":"2023-03-14T05:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=276613"},"modified":"2023-03-14T05:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:36:31","slug":"enough-shite-talk-about-a-snake-chasing-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/14\/enough-shite-talk-about-a-snake-chasing-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Shite-Talk About a Snake-Chasing Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m listening for the Eastern garter snakes. Any day now, they\u2019ll arise from hibernation, rustle the Pennsylvania leaves, then tumble down the hills into the bright edge of the vernal equinox. Also this week, we\u2019ll have Saint Patrick\u2019s Day. And someone\u2014there\u2019s always someone\u2014will solemnly say that we\u2019re celebrating the Great Enlightener Who Drove the Serpents  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/14\/enough-shite-talk-about-a-snake-chasing-saint\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/14\/enough-shite-talk-about-a-snake-chasing-saint\/\">Enough Shite-Talk About a Snake-Chasing Saint<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/14\/enough-shite-talk-about-a-snake-chasing-saint\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m listening for the Eastern garter snakes. Any day now, they\u2019ll arise from hibernation, rustle the Pennsylvania leaves, then tumble down the hills into the bright edge of the vernal equinox. Also this week, we\u2019ll have Saint Patrick\u2019s Day. And someone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025008,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025007\/revisions\/1025008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}