{"id":2109,"date":"2010-03-30T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2010-03-30T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T22:56:02","slug":"surprises-in-the-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/surprises-in-the-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprises in the backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Pulley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Pulley-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Pulley-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Pulley-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love the ingenuity that Daniel brings to outdoor play. The lizard in the background is not real, but there are many small lizards in our yard. They provide a lot of entertainment as we try to catch them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iris-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iris-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iris-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It takes two years for an iris to blossom after you transplant. These were a gift from a good friend. A few weeks ago I had a dream that my irises were blossoming ( I also dreamed that Barbra Streisand was my nosy neighbor, looking over the fence at me as I swung around from a vine like Tarzan&#8217;s Jane). Today my dream is coming true. The iris part, that is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have you been watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/theowlbox\">The Owl Box<\/a>? Some folks in San Marcos, CA have placed an owl box in their yard and some owls have nested there. They have a camera on the nest and several eggs have hatched. There is an egg about ready to hatch. It&#8217;s like The Truman Show with owls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the ingenuity that Daniel brings to outdoor play. The lizard in the background is not real, but there are many small lizards in our yard. They provide a lot of entertainment as we try to catch them. It takes two years for an iris to blossom after you transplant. These were a gift &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/surprises-in-the-backyard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surprises in the backyard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}