{"id":257,"date":"2008-07-07T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T03:09:19","slug":"bottoms-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/bottoms-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottoms Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKvTQgEZrI\/AAAAAAAAARY\/xZtyOnSAzxk\/s1600-h\/027.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220427663457674930\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKvTQgEZrI\/AAAAAAAAARY\/xZtyOnSAzxk\/s400\/027.JPG?w=1080\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEvery once in a while I do a double-take when I see waterfowl feeding under water.  For a moment, I stared at these geese completely unable to identify the species.  Then their heads pop back up and I feel dumb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKvTp4kIPI\/AAAAAAAAARg\/2UJA63hfTJI\/s1600-h\/009.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220427670271303922\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKvTp4kIPI\/AAAAAAAAARg\/2UJA63hfTJI\/s400\/009.JPG?w=1080\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFunny how the phrase &#8220;bottoms up&#8221; usually involves intake of some kind, whether you&#8217;re human or aviary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKvT7UFkSI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/wSFuWJtrB0o\/s1600-h\/018.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220427674950144290\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKvT7UFkSI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/wSFuWJtrB0o\/s400\/018.JPG?w=1080\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI see these birds every day, and I take pictures of them almost every day.  One of these days you are all going to get sick to death of my bird pictures. Personally, I prefer having birds making their way through my back yard as opposed to the other critters that hang around here: an endless supply of rats, bugs and other creepy crawlies that I cannot identify.  Although it is nice to see the bees back in action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKuAyc2DfI\/AAAAAAAAARQ\/CWsoFJHU-PM\/s1600-h\/023.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220426246641815026\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_zp3Ar3Ay1J4\/SHKuAyc2DfI\/AAAAAAAAARQ\/CWsoFJHU-PM\/s400\/023.JPG?w=1080\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere is a giant  squirrel that lives around here, but my camera has yet to capture him. Don&#8217;t tell anyone, but I&#8217;m actually a little bit afraid of him.   Shhhh!<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><a rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Coffeejitters\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/images\/pub\/feed-icon16x16.png?w=1080\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Coffeejitters\">Subscribe to CoffeeJitters<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\u00a9 Copyright Judy Haley 2008. All rights reserved.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I do a double-take when I see waterfowl feeding under water. For a moment, I stared at these geese completely unable to identify the species. Then their heads pop back up and I feel dumb. Funny how the phrase &#8220;bottoms up&#8221; usually involves intake of some kind, whether you&#8217;re human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[763,771],"tags":[18,75],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creating-a-living","category-photography-creating-a-living-creating-a-living","tag-critters","tag-water","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"763":{"name":"Creating a Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/"},"771":{"name":"Photography","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/photography-creating-a-living-creating-a-living\/"}},"tags_names":{"18":{"name":"critters","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/critters\/"},"75":{"name":"water","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/water\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-49","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}