{"id":361,"date":"2007-06-16T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-01-03T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T02:58:47","slug":"backyard-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/06\/16\/backyard-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I looked out to find 18 king parrots in my garden! There were also a trio of young crimson rosellas, and a pair of eastern rosellas. At first they were in a tree, looking like bright red decorations. This is a king and an eastern (smaller):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996586683@N01\/555785151\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1363\/555785151_8a4fdc0202.jpg\" alt=\"kingp\" height=\"500\" width=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today there was a strange animal nosing around in all the twigs and leaves the parrots had nibbled off and dropped on the ground. Can you see it&#8217;s back legs and long tail?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996586683@N01\/555785461\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1384\/555785461_fcafaedeba.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3907\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A wider view:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996586683@N01\/555435998\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1276\/555435998_a45699b9ae.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3908\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, just the plumber&#8217;s electric eel. I was interested to see that he kept the eel rolled up in a car tyre. I meant to ask him if that was just his particular invention, or one most plumbers have taken to. It&#8217;s a great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I looked out to find 18 king parrots in my garden! There were also a trio of young crimson rosellas, and a pair of eastern rosellas. At first they were in a tree, looking like bright red decorations. This is a king and an eastern (smaller): Today there was a strange animal nosing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,19,18],"tags":[461,754,753,752,755],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-fun","category-pareidolia","tag-backyard","tag-eastern-rosella","tag-king-parrot","tag-parrots","tag-plumbing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-5P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}