{"id":1339,"date":"2006-08-29T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T11:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2006-08-29T07:27:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T11:27:48","slug":"flying-flapping-of-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/08\/29\/flying-flapping-of-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Flapping Of Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/blueheron.jpg\" title=\"blueheron.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1340\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/blueheron.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"blueheron.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been stalking the local herons for months, determined that eventually I&#8217;d produce pictures that would  show rakkity how big they are.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qRHBkn3Gffo\"target=\"_blank\"> Here&#8217;s <\/a> my best effort so far. (Accompanying music is Mozart&#8217;s String Quartet No.16 in E Flat, K.428, III. Menuetto. Allegretto)<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of rakkity:<\/p>\n<p>Michael,<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday rakkity &#038; the Mrs. took another big step to moving west.  Our house got a FOR SALE sign, and we had 6 people come through (while we were off in Annapolis).  Our agent said that one of people actually made an offer.  We&#8217;ll hear what it was tonight. I&#8217;m guessing that they want to pay $100K less, have a couple of our huge pine trees cut down, the patio concrete repaired, a new driveway, a better garage, dormers and skiylights on the master bedroom, and a couple of new room additions.<\/p>\n<p>More later (including a picture or two).<\/p>\n<p>rakkity<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p>Canned Heat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ia3TOgizEuE&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\" target=\"_blank\"> On The Road Again <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been stalking the local herons for months, determined that eventually I&#8217;d produce pictures that would show rakkity how big they are. Here&#8217;s my best effort so far. (Accompanying music is Mozart&#8217;s String Quartet No.16 in E Flat, K.428, III. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/08\/29\/flying-flapping-of-wings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}