{"id":33488,"date":"2022-12-27T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=33488"},"modified":"2022-12-26T21:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T02:49:59","slug":"as-good-a-time-as-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/12\/as-good-a-time-as-any\/","title":{"rendered":"As good a time as any"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, on this date fourteen years ago came the very first post<\/a> on the blog. And I realized, at the beginning of this month, that another milestone was coming up, so I made sure to have them converge:<\/strong> this is the 2,500th<\/sup> post itself. I have to admit that no one’s<\/em> congratulatory cards have arrived yet, but I’m putting this down to the holiday rush – I’m sure they’ll be along any day now.<\/p>\n

Shelving that for the moment, I figured it was time for a podcast, since we’ve had so few (like, one) this year. Plenty of other stuff, mind you, but only one podcast. Two, now.<\/p>\n

Walkabout podcast – That’s 14 down<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/Walkabout%20YearEnd22.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Some of the accomplishments this year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The (so far) longest gap between visits<\/a><\/p>\n

Woodpeckers, first mention<\/a> (though I did get a peek at one in February<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Woodpeckers, confirmation of the nest<\/a><\/p>\n

Woodpeckers, first video compilation<\/a><\/p>\n

Woodpeckers, second video compilation<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the young adult woodpeckers<\/a><\/p>\n

The first indication<\/em> of beavers<\/a><\/p>\n

The first images of the beavers themselves<\/a><\/p>\n

Further, with some video<\/a><\/p>\n

Still more of the beavers, with some great behavioral clips<\/a><\/p>\n

The nutria clips<\/a>, so now you know what they are.<\/p>\n

Possibly the first day out of the nest for the juvenile green herons<\/a><\/p>\n

A brief anole video<\/a>, though the violent territorial dispute that I mentioned was two years ago<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

In fact, I uploaded 14 video clips this year, so that’s been expanding nicely.<\/p>\n

We’re letting you know because this is liable to be on the quiz, but the 2,000th<\/sup> post was 21 months ago<\/a>. That’s, let’s see, off the top of my head it would be an average of 23.8095238089 posts per month in that bracket – somewhere around there, anyway – and should that rate continue, it would put us at the 3,000th<\/sup> post in September 2024;<\/strong> I predict it will be September 24th<\/sup>, just for the sake of it and to use the <sup> tags one more time.<\/p>\n

But yeah, that’s enough harping on a meaningless number. It was a nice recap excuse, though…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, on this date fourteen years ago came the very first post on the blog. And I realized, at the beginning of this month, that another milestone was coming up, so I made sure to have them converge: this is the 2,500th post itself. I have to admit that no one’s congratulatory cards have arrived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[531,446,4081,4760,445,4362,6942,4784,6940,4361,7041],"class_list":["post-33488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-butorides-virescens","tag-carolina-anole","tag-castor-canadensis","tag-green-heron","tag-melanerpes-erythrocephalus","tag-myocastor-coypus","tag-north-american-beaver","tag-nutria","tag-red-headed-woodpecker","tag-way-too-much-actually"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33488","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=33488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}