{"id":20076,"date":"2024-06-02T21:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20076"},"modified":"2024-06-04T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:53:32","slug":"starling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20076","title":{"rendered":"Starling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/starlingF7DL5492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/starlingF7DL5492.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/starlingF7DL5492-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Cute baby starlings at feeding time. They fared better than the dead bird we found under the table wearing a ring that had been put on one day ago and 4km away. And the one that got away from the cat and spent hours flapping behind the sofa before A1 finally ushered it out. Same two things happened almost exactly <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=17922\">two years ago<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe had three sorts of delicious burgers (meat, fish and pizza) with many accompaniments followed by fruit salad for our family dinner (thank you A1) and scored a below-par 8 on the GSQ.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Scatter Her Ashes<\/em>* by Heine Bakkeid; another grindingly miserable book: divorced deposed detective on trail of missing children and serial killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute baby starlings at feeding time. They fared better than the dead bird we found under the table wearing a ring that had been put on one day ago and 4km away. And the one that got away from the cat and spent hours flapping behind the sofa before A1 finally ushered it out. Same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starling&#8230;&#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":[14],"tags":[20,29,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076"}],"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=20076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20082,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076\/revisions\/20082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}