{"id":28102,"date":"2021-02-04T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=28102"},"modified":"2021-02-04T00:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T05:30:06","slug":"profiles-of-nature-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/02\/profiles-of-nature-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of Nature 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0204Durwood.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile black rat snake eastern rat snake Pantherophis alleghaniensis in alert pose\" width=\"750\" height=\"609\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28103\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>In this week&#8217;s Profiles, we find Durwood just as he was remembering that there is a home inspection scheduled for today and he hadn&#8217;t put away certain, um, <em>things<\/em> &#8211; we&#8217;ve all been there, even if we don&#8217;t necessarily have Durwood&#8217;s taste in possessions. He admits that he&#8217;s just working as a nature photographer&#8217;s model for the time being, fulfilling a promise to his imaginary abusive grandmother before pursuing his lateadolescencelong dream of becoming roadkill. Durwood told us of being the teacher&#8217;s pet one year in school, but doesn&#8217;t recall being particularly quick or clever, so he suspects it was because she enjoyed seeing him get tripped in the cafeteria<strong>;<\/strong> we&#8217;ll let you try to picture that. Due to his disappointment in finding that bok choy didn&#8217;t taste anywhere near as good as it sounded, he founded the grass roots campaign to rename foods appropriately, suggesting new words such as, &#8216;plud,&#8217; and, &#8216;vagicrust.&#8217; This doesn&#8217;t leave him much time for a hobby, but Durwood has always been curious about what percentage of macaroni is used only in kid&#8217;s crafts, and more importantly <em>why<\/em>, so he plans to research this in his retirement. His favorite ISO standard is 11040-2:2011 Part 2.<\/p>\n<p>Join us next week when we continue to avoid asking why we keep posting in first-person plural &#8211; it&#8217;s sure to be a rollercoaster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s Profiles, we find Durwood just as he was remembering that there is a home inspection scheduled for today and he hadn&#8217;t put away certain, um, things &#8211; we&#8217;ve all been there, even if we don&#8217;t necessarily have Durwood&#8217;s taste in possessions. He admits that he&#8217;s just working as a nature photographer&#8217;s model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[288,5907,5596,5595,5905,5906],"class_list":["post-28102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","tag-black-rat-snake","tag-durwood","tag-eastern-rat-snake","tag-pantherophis-alleghaniensis","tag-people-from-brussels-will-be-happier","tag-plud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28102","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=28102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}