{"id":1224,"date":"2021-03-19T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:57:23","slug":"is-there-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Is there a problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dean and Arlene return from evening birding expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean pulls car into driveway. Headlights momentarily shine under the other car, illuminating something that doesn&#8217;t look just like the muffler. Dean backs up and pulls forward to the point where the lights are shining under the other car again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arlene: Is there a problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean: No, there&#8217;s an opossum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yup, it was under the other car, looking at us. It was ten days ago that I saw one (the same? I don&#8217;t know) in the backyard when I took out the compost. Here&#8217;s its photo; I didn&#8217;t get one tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CompostVisitorSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CompostVisitorSmall.jpg 302w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CompostVisitorSmall-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the birding expedition, we were looking (OK, listening) for woodcocks. We did hear one, and I got a glimpse of one coming in for a landing, but we didn&#8217;t get any good views. Hearing counts as a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean and Arlene return from evening birding expedition. Dean pulls car into driveway. Headlights momentarily shine under the other car, illuminating something that doesn&#8217;t look just like the muffler. Dean backs up and pulls forward to the point where the lights are shining under the other car again. Arlene: Is there a problem? Dean: No, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1224\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there a problem?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,17],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birding","tag-nature","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}