{"id":115,"date":"2010-03-08T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/~david\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-03-08T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:33:08","slug":"my-grandmothers-cardinal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/03\/08\/my-grandmothers-cardinal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Grandmother&#039;s Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardinal talked to me Sunday morning from the branches of a leafless tree.  I was bent over, pitching forks of chipped tree branch mulch into the wheel barrow in a kind of meditative stupor when I heard it singing overhead.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tweeeet.  Bit-twoo, bit-twoo, bit-twoo, bit-twoo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sky was grey, and there was a slight drizzle in the air.  I stood up and leaned on the pitch fork and looked up into the branches to where it was perched.  It was bright red against the greyness all around.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why I&#8217;m telling you this.  No&#8230; that&#8217;s not right.  The fact of the matter is that I&#8217;m not talking to you.  I&#8217;m talking to my grandmother, just letting her know about a singing Redbird in the upper reaches of my Ash tree.  She would have wanted to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardinal talked to me Sunday morning from the branches of a leafless tree. I was bent over, pitching forks of chipped tree branch mulch into the wheel barrow in a kind of meditative stupor when I heard it singing overhead. Tweeeet. Bit-twoo, bit-twoo, bit-twoo, bit-twoo. The sky was grey, and there was a slight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}