{"id":218,"date":"2009-08-09T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:47:04","slug":"if-its-raining-it-must-be-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/09\/if-its-raining-it-must-be-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"If It&#8217;s Raining, It Must Be The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rainy, cool summer in Alden has given me fewer excuses to get some indoor work done, although I&#8217;ll admit that there&#8217;s something oddly calming about floating on the pontoon boat in the middle of a drizzle. Today I plan on converting another box of Uncle Walt&#8217;s home movies, but not until I find some time between the rain drops to cut the lawn, which has become waves of grain.<\/p>\n<p>While stepping out onto the deck this morning, I noticed a hen turkey with three little poults (yeah, I had to look that up &#8230; I guess they&#8217;re not called goblets.) After spotting me, she did a good job of hiding them behind a redwood tree, but I managed to snap a few blurry pictures before they walked back into the woods, single file.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/HenAndPoults.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-219\" title=\"HenAndPoults\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/HenAndPoults-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey Hen and her 3 Poults\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey Hen and her 3 Poults<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hey, the sun is out. Time to harvest the lawn while the tractor can still make it through and before more rain falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rainy, cool summer in Alden has given me fewer excuses to get some indoor work done, although I&#8217;ll admit that there&#8217;s something oddly calming about floating on the pontoon &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upnorth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}