{"id":4196,"date":"2019-08-18T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:41:00","slug":"the-man-in-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"The Man In White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/07-11-15-100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/07-11-15-100-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/07-11-15-100-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/07-11-15-100-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Prodigal:\u00a0 Watch out for snakes out there.<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 I will, I don&#8217;t want to take chances.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 That is a wise move.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the book\u00a0 Where Angels Walk by Joan Wester Anderson<\/p>\n<p>Years ago the Durrance family, natives of southwestern Florida, moved to a house in a partially completed subdivision, once farmland.\u00a0 Set apart by side roads, the Durrance house was the only dwelling on their street, and their vast lot was surrounded by woodsy grass, palmetto clumps, and drainage ditches.<\/p>\n<p>Even without a telephone, Debbie Durrance felt comfortable in the isolated brushland, but she was apprehensive about letting her children roam at will.\u00a0 Things could happen&#8212;kids could get hurt in places where their cries couldn&#8217;t be heard.\u00a0 And there had been several reports of rattlesnakes in the area; 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