{"id":20648,"date":"2024-11-19T21:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20648"},"modified":"2024-11-30T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:22:40","slug":"critter-of-the-day-sturnus-vulgaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20648","title":{"rendered":"Critter of the Day: Sturnus vulgaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20649\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/starlingF7DL5604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/starlingF7DL5604.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/starlingF7DL5604-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A starling amid the red leaves and mostly melted snow.<br \/>\nA1 is rereading the enormous and erudite <em>Anathem<\/em> by Neal Stephenson. It occurred to A1 on this reread that there is a possibility that <a href=\"https:\/\/anathem.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jad\">Fraa Jad<\/a> maps to <a href=\"https:\/\/baroquecycle.fandom.com\/wiki\/Enoch_Root\">Enoch Root<\/a>, in some sense. But it appears I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/anathem.fandom.com\/wiki\/Incanter\">not the first to notice this<\/a> (see &#8216;Speculation&#8217; at bottom of page).<br \/>\nA2 is rereading <em>A Climate of Fear<\/em> by Fred Vargas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A starling amid the red leaves and mostly melted snow. A1 is rereading the enormous and erudite Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It occurred to A1 on this reread that there is a possibility that Fraa Jad maps to Enoch Root, in some sense. But it appears I&#8217;m not the first to notice this (see &#8216;Speculation&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critter of the Day: Sturnus vulgaris&#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":[19,20,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648"}],"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=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20676,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions\/20676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}