{"id":194,"date":"2018-11-16T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=194"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:13:39","slug":"on-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/on-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"ON PRODUCTIVITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ON PRODUCTIVITY<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Holsteins salt and pepper<br \/>\nspring-green grass. It&#8217;s the early<br \/>\nmorning cud chewing, they rest<br \/>\nunder the warming<br \/>\nsun. <\/p>\n<p>Heat waves<br \/>\nbegin<br \/>\nto shimmer<br \/>\nthe pavement<br \/>\nas I drive<br \/>\nto evaluate<br \/>\nMs. Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Drop by drop, the cows&#8217; udders swell.<br \/>\nMilk bags sway between their legs.<br \/>\nTime to enter the milking shed. Each tag read,<br \/>\nlogged into the record, the day&#8217;s production<br \/>\ntallied. <\/p>\n<p>Daily, a computer<br \/>\ncalculates<br \/>\nmy quota,<br \/>\nneed<br \/>\ntwenty-eight<br \/>\nvisits.<\/p>\n<p>Number 50 is dropping off,<br \/>\nprobably due to age. An old milk cow<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t much good for anything<br \/>\nexcept dog food.<\/p>\n<p>Chagrin River Review Fall 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON PRODUCTIVITY The Holsteins salt and pepper spring-green grass. It&#8217;s the early morning cud chewing, they rest under the warming sun. Heat waves begin to shimmer the pavement as I drive to evaluate Ms. Smith. Drop by drop, the cows&#8217; udders swell. Milk bags sway between their legs. Time to enter the milking shed. Each&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/on-productivity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ON PRODUCTIVITY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}