{"id":4572,"date":"2013-07-14T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T22:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2013-07-14T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T22:24:56","slug":"ah-yup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4572","title":{"rendered":"Ah&#8230;Yup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4543\">It was a white crowned sparrow nest<\/a> all right!<br \/>\nI was out picking loganberries again yesterday evening (oh good HEAVENS loganberries!!) and thought it a little bit odd that there was some straw caught in the canes just south of me.  It hasn&#8217;t really been windy enough to blow the straw around.<br \/>\nThen, out of the corner of my eye, I caught the sudden movement of something brown into the undergrowth around my lilac bush.  Oh no, I did NOT just see a rat!!<br \/>\nBut unless rats start to chirp when they&#8217;re disturbed&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nThen I saw the piece of fuzz, someone seems to have lost some acrylic fuzz from inside a comforter, caught up in the loganberry canes.  THEN I saw the new nest.<br \/>\nThis one is an active nest.  I got scolded all the rest of the time I was picking over there.  Which means that I&#8217;m not going to pick that end of the loganberries for the rest of the season.  Oh well!<br \/>\nWhich probably explains my perfectly execrable luck with starting peas on that end of the garden.  I&#8217;ve started peas three times now and I might have five pea plants.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still willing to put up with it!  \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a white crowned sparrow nest all right! I was out picking loganberries again yesterday evening (oh good HEAVENS loganberries!!) and thought it a little bit odd that there was some straw caught in the canes just south of me. It hasn&#8217;t really been windy enough to blow the straw around. Then, out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}