{"id":18950,"date":"2023-07-01T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18950"},"modified":"2023-07-05T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T08:35:45","slug":"owl-and-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18950","title":{"rendered":"Owl and Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18951\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/owlD7DL5089.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/owlD7DL5089.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/owlD7DL5089-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Our scare owl totally fails to bother the stupid squirrel, even though a real owl would eat it in a flash. The pigeons all studiously look the other way though.<br \/>\nJune 2023 was a bit warmer and drier than June 2022 and, despite the dim and cloudy end to the month, the solar panels managed to absorb enough photons to pull ahead of June 2018 by half a kilowatt hour and become our sunniest June of all time. [Update 3\/7\/23: It was also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/about-us\/press-office\/news\/weather-and-climate\/2023\/fingerprints-of-climate-change-on-june-temperature-records\">hottest June on record<\/a> for the whole country.]<br \/>\nAdmin1 is rereading <em>River of Gods<\/em> by Ian McDonald. Admin2 is reading <em>The Last Remains<\/em> by Elly Griffiths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our scare owl totally fails to bother the stupid squirrel, even though a real owl would eat it in a flash. The pigeons all studiously look the other way though. June 2023 was a bit warmer and drier than June 2022 and, despite the dim and cloudy end to the month, the solar panels managed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Owl and Squirrel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,5,14],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18962,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950\/revisions\/18962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}