{"id":337,"date":"2010-03-14T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T22:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=337"},"modified":"2010-03-14T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T22:41:54","slug":"sometimes-you-feel-like-a-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433555364\/\" title=\"IMG_2979 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4003\/4433555364_37b8a965b0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2979\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought a new lens, I told myself, so that I could take pictures of squirrels without scaring them off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4432785021\/\" title=\"IMG_2982 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4021\/4432785021_d52349e41e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2982\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You need to zoom in quite a bit on a squirrel.  They are skittish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433573988\/\" title=\"IMG_2988 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2729\/4433573988_01925c83d9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2988\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucky for me a squirrel was accommodating enough to come out to play on my first day of wandering around with the 70-300 mm zoom lens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433576380\/\" title=\"IMG_2989 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2706\/4433576380_d8d819e01e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2989\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He hardly seemed to care that I was there, mainly because I wasn&#8217;t actually standing very close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4433588284\/\" title=\"IMG_2994 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4003\/4433588284_a58bc82959.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2994\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he didn&#8217;t hang around long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4432835483\/\" title=\"IMG_3003 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4432835483_60a7ae6123.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had places to go, and other nuts to see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4432713209\/\" title=\"IMG_2930 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2756\/4432713209_5f573707f7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2930\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bird was nice enough to pose as well, but stayed with me an even shorter time than the squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to finding enough squirrels in my life to justify the price of the lens, which we really aren&#8217;t going to talk about right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new lens, I told myself, so that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}