{"id":2273,"date":"2012-12-31T20:16:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T03:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2012-12-31T20:41:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T03:41:05","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just back from a visit with Pappy and Nonna in Carson City&#8212;Robin and Thora had <em>so<\/em> much fun in the snow. (Davy, not so much. He took one step and immediately fell down on a slippery patch, and after that insisted on being carried over the treacherous white stuff. California boy!) <\/p>\n<p>And I saw a tree full of quail, which was <em>thrilling.<\/em> Quail, with their funny bobbing head-tufts and their plump little bodies, are the most adorable birds ever&#8212;especially if you spot a momma with her little ones all trailing after. Sam, native son of the West, is thoroughly blas\u00e9 about them and can&#8217;t understand why I get so excited every time. &#8220;They&#8217;re just like pigeons,&#8221; he says. &#8220;All over the place.&#8221; (They are <em>not<\/em> just like pigeons, they are wonderful and I will never get over them.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/8332367094\/\" title=\"001 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8222\/8332367094_a5ee0132b0.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"001\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/8332369834\/\" title=\"014 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8079\/8332369834_1fe7f96c61.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" alt=\"014\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/8331311383\/\" title=\"019 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8355\/8331311383_db86e53be6.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" alt=\"019\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/8331308963\/\" title=\"007 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8500\/8331308963_36b0b80026.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" alt=\"007\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope all of you have a new year filled with warmth, love, and joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just back from a visit with Pappy and Nonna in Carson City&#8212;Robin and Thora had so much fun in the snow. (Davy, not so much. He took one step and immediately fell down on a slippery patch, and after that insisted on being carried over the treacherous white stuff. California boy!) And I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}