{"id":325,"date":"2006-04-13T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=325"},"modified":"2006-04-13T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T14:41:05","slug":"shots-from-the-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/04\/13\/shots-from-the-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots from the yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow1\"><a title=\"Dogwood\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/44\/127934571_5149ae70e7.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dogwood\" title=\"Dogwood\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/44\/127934571_5149ae70e7_t.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was a bit windy all day yesterday, which made two things more difficult than usual:  Biking (west) and getting clean macro shots.  There was a lot of nice light in the sky last evening as we were getting Ava ready for bed, so I took the opportunity to get out in the yard and grab some photos of the buds and blooms that are showing up all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>The picture featured here is of the first thin leaves breaking out on a dogwood branch in the back yard.  Unfortunately, this was actually a branch I&#8217;d trimmed from the rangy dogwood that stands at the border of our yard and the back neighbor&#8217;s place.  The tree is really nice, but it&#8217;s getting crowded by a huge pussy willow, which is a shame, because it doesn&#8217;t have much room to grow as it needs to.  I should probably take it out completely at some point, but the birds like it.<\/p>\n<p>I have some more shots from last evening in the <a title=\"April06\" href=\"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_itemId=26383\">April 06 dailies<\/a> gallery.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bit windy all day yesterday, which made two things more difficult than usual: Biking (west) and getting clean macro shots. There was a lot of nice light in the sky last evening as we were getting Ava ready for bed, so I took the opportunity to get out in the yard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-5f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}