{"id":593,"date":"2011-01-10T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2011\/01\/snow_day\/"},"modified":"2012-12-03T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T03:22:36","slug":"snow_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2011\/01\/snow_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a few inches of snow last night and this morning it was covered with a sheet of sleet. Katie does not like this because when she takes a step her foot breaks through the thin layer of sleet and into the snow below that. She walks through it very carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Outside my kitchen window is a tree (maybe a big shrub) with green leaves and bunches of red berries. There were hundreds of birds checking it out today. These birds were really pretty with black masks, bright yellow trim on their tails, and bright red spots on their wings. I&#8217;m pretty sure they are <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cedar_waxwing\">cedar waxwings<\/A> after looking them up in my bird guide. You can see in the picture why they are called waxwings: it looks like their tails and wings are dipped in melted crayons. I&#8217;m not so sure about the tree, but I&#8217;m thinking it could be a cotoneaster. There was also one robin trying to keep all of the waxwings away from his tree, but he didn&#8217;t seem to be eating very fast. Better just to eat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/birds-1138.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/birds-thumb-300x400-1138.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"birds.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is another one a couple of years later:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2011\/01\/snow_day\/waxwing\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/files\/2011\/01\/waxwing-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"waxwing\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/files\/2011\/01\/waxwing-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/files\/2011\/01\/waxwing.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a few inches of snow last night and this morning it was covered with a sheet of sleet. Katie does not like this because when she takes a step her foot breaks through the thin layer of sleet and into the snow below that. She walks through it very carefully. Outside my kitchen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2011\/01\/snow_day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snow Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}