{"id":6105,"date":"2011-06-30T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T01:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2011-06-30T21:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T01:19:17","slug":"too-funnywhat-is-it-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2011\/06\/30\/too-funnywhat-is-it-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Funny\/What is It #3?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Too Funny<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You just gotta love getting old.  As they say often, &#8220;It beats the alternative.&#8221;  (I agree on that.) <\/p>\n<p>I was walking around the house in my stocking feet this afternoon as I always do&#8211;tile floor throughout&#8211;getting ready for my nap and feeling jet-lagged-out-of-it, practically out on my feet.  I was way past ready for my nap but had to use the facilities.   I made the right turn from the hallway into the john, stepped on the edge of a small rug, and went down like the proverbial ton of bricks putting out my right hand to stop myself.  On the way down I thought, &#8220;Don&#8217;t break your right wrist; you fly to Quito on Sunday.&#8221;  The fall was nowhere near as bad as the one I took in the motel bathroom in Fort Myers a few years ago but as I got up, I saw that I had somehow gouged my left arm just above the wrist; it looked as if I had taken one of those rounded wood chisels to it with a vengeance.  I cleaned it up nicely, bandaged it&#8211;I have lots of supplies left over from my second surgery, and&#8211;though it took me a while to fall asleep after a surge of adrenalin, took a short nap.  I am now none the worse for wear.  <\/p>\n<p>I chuckled when I thought of how careful I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2011\/06\/26\/redemption-artie-gets-his-dovekies-2\/\">up on that mountain<\/a> just a few days ago, taking great care with every step, aware that I might slip and fall and seriously injure myself or destroy my gear. Then take a turn into the bathroom and go down hard (but not for the count!)  You gotta love getting old.   <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Abstract.  See below. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2><strong>What is It?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What is it?  What focal length was used to create the image?  Answer in two days. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Funny <\/p>\n<p>You just gotta love getting old. As they say often, &#8220;It beats the alternative.&#8221; (I agree on that.) <\/p>\n<p>I was walking around the house in my stocking feet this afternoon as I always do&#8211;tile floor throughout&#8211;getting ready for my nap and feeling jet-lagged-out-of-it, practically out on my feet. I was way past [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90,27,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90","category-anecdotes","category-general","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}