{"id":3122,"date":"2020-12-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2022-11-08T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:28:26","slug":"carolina-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"A Carolina Christmas\u2026in the Southern uplands"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By Edgar Castillo<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Winter is here, and leather boots are on the go<\/b>
Wingshooters in orange walking through evergreen groves<\/b>
Red Partridgeberries danglin’ everywhere<\/b>
Timberdoodles flushin’ in pairs<\/b>
It must be that time of year that brings warm cheer<\/b><\/p>

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Carolina Ruffs sittin’ high upon a lone tree<\/b>
<\/b>Hunters searchin\u2019 for island pheasants aimlessly<\/b>
Core Bank imported birds frustrate<\/b>
As they fly across quickly on their way<\/b>
Missed shots causing grown men to weep<\/b><\/p>

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Setter bells are ringin’ up ahead<\/b>
Rigid statues pointing with their nose from still heads<\/b>
Dog starts to creep, birds decide to vamoose<\/b>
Shotguns shooting and feathers goin\u2019 poof<\/b>
Grouse tails peakin’ out. So boujee<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>
<\/b>It’s a Carolina Christmas<\/b>
<\/b>Southern uplands as sweet as can be<\/b><\/p>

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Head to the Blue Ridge Mountains for a journey <\/b>
<\/b>A thunder of grouse may be found on either side of a gully<\/b>
Drinkin\u2019 seasonal Wassail then going after Dixieland quail<\/b>
<\/b>Leafers walking dirt roads beneath bare trees<\/b><\/p>

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Bird dogs workin\u2019 favorite December haunts <\/b>
Escaping holiday parties to chase the grouse I want<\/b>
In my hands, lies a twenty with two barrels<\/b><\/p>

With a grey phase bird in hand I\u2019ll be singing my own carols<\/b>
It’s a Carolina Christmas <\/b>
<\/b>Southern uplands as sweet as can be<\/b><\/p>

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Winter is here, and leather boots are on the go
\nWingshooters in orange walking through evergreen groves
\nRed Partridgeberries danglin’ everywhere
\nTimberdoodles flushin’ in pairs
\nIt must be that time of year that brings warm cheer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[129,41,82],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hunting","tag-christmas","tag-north-carolina","tag-upland-hunting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/service-pnp-pga-05000-05015v-1-1.jpg","acf":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}