{"id":16169,"date":"2020-10-30T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=16169"},"modified":"2020-11-01T20:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:00:51","slug":"an-unexpected-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=16169","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Admin1 was disturbed by a cacophony of <em>rawk-rawk<\/em> sounds from a squadron of magpies in the garden. And looking out of the window he saw why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vlcsnap-2020-10-30-16h37m38s228s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16170\" title=\"vlcsnap-2020-10-30-16h37m38s228s\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vlcsnap-2020-10-30-16h37m38s228s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vlcsnap-2020-10-30-16h37m38s228s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vlcsnap-2020-10-30-16h37m38s228s-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vlcsnap-2020-10-30-16h37m38s228s-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/sparrowhawk\/\">sparrowhawk<\/a>, feasting on one of their brethren (presumably). There wasn&#8217;t much left to identify the victim apart from feathers.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is reading <em>Perfect Death<\/em> by Helen Fields, which was soapily melodramatic and only borderline readable. Admin2 is reading <em>The Ottoman Secret<\/em> by Raymond Khoury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Admin1 was disturbed by a cacophony of rawk-rawk sounds from a squadron of magpies in the garden. And looking out of the window he saw why&#8230; &#8230;a sparrowhawk, feasting on one of their brethren (presumably). There wasn&#8217;t much left to identify the victim apart from feathers. Admin1 is reading Perfect Death by Helen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=16169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Unexpected Visitor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14],"tags":[19,20,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16179,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions\/16179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}