{"id":6693,"date":"2025-10-27T07:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:25:04","slug":"whip-poor-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2025\/10\/27\/whip-poor-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Whip-Poor-Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Whip-Poor-Will called last night. It was that time in the late evening when the gray twilight is vanishing. The call came in thru the back patio door. I sat up and waited for the next. Only a yapping dog in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>After some time, it called again. This time thru the screen door at the front. I went outside and stood still for a very long time waiting for the next. There was none. The graying light had turned to black. The yard was dark but for the orange glow from a streetlight across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Up there somewhere in the branches of the Oak, the Whip-Poor-Will was resting its weary bones. Tomorrow would be another day. And it&rsquo;s a long way to Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Whip-Poor-Will called last night. It was that time in the late evening when the gray twilight is vanishing. The call came in thru the back patio door. I sat up and waited for the next. Only a yapping dog in the distance. After some time, it called again. This time thru the screen door [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693"}],"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=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}