{"id":22860,"date":"2018-10-20T23:49:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=22860"},"modified":"2018-10-20T23:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:49:31","slug":"and-theres-the-handoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/10\/and-theres-the-handoff\/","title":{"rendered":"And there&#8217;s the handoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ICallTheLittleOne.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile northern water snake Nerodia sipedon basking while approaching molt\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22861\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Oh, look &#8211; another insipid sports metaphor. We can&#8217;t really escape them, can we? But I suppose I can take solace in the fact that I don&#8217;t know what it means or what sport it&#8217;s from. I think it&#8217;s jai alai&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a photo from a recent outing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/albuggphotos.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tardy Mr Bugg<\/a>, who&#8217;s supposed to provide the entire story, so I&#8217;m encouraging you to click on his link and find it. I would link directly to the post itself, except that he hasn&#8217;t posted it yet as I write this, so this is only to his main blog &#8211; I&#8217;ll correct it when he finally puts the post up.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting, you can bask in the warm glow of my voice (well, you know, compared to certain others, anyway) with the podcast that I just added, below. We&#8217;re entering the slow season, and this is a reflection of it, but also hopefully a source of further news within the next two months. We&#8217;ll just have to see, won&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, look &#8211; another insipid sports metaphor. We can&#8217;t really escape them, can we? But I suppose I can take solace in the fact that I don&#8217;t know what it means or what sport it&#8217;s from. I think it&#8217;s jai alai&#8230; Anyway, this is a photo from a recent outing with the Tardy Mr Bugg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,3,12],"tags":[4589,962,961,4590],"class_list":["post-22860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continued","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-like-harvey-fierstein-or-gilbert-gottfried","tag-nerodia-sipedon","tag-northern-water-snake","tag-saved-you-some-research-if-you-thought-to-check-these-tags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}