{"id":714,"date":"2017-06-20T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2023-01-06T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:56:04","slug":"first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sliding from the top of a large white balled light post, a robin\u2019s perch precarious,<br \/>\nSquawk, squawwk, squawwwk, another two birds work distraction from nearby branches.<\/p>\n<p>Stray-kitty ponders the toy morsel, plump from its Ma\u2019s attentive feeding, worms abundant in this riverside haven, fresh rains have top soil moistened for the savvy winged workers.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing an apparent ground fodder, I whisk the tired but wide-eyed cat from its playful perch looking down atop the hill and the young robin, he seemingly content to let the frightened youngster alone.<\/p>\n<p>Wondering if bruised or maimed, I make periodic health checks between coffee sips, chihuahuas wrestle, and some email, the morning sun shining obliquely on this hallowed solstice day.<\/p>\n<p>Mom now continues mild mannered chirping on a branch above, a blunted worm hanging from its mandible, but the babe now not obvious, however her tenor convinces me that all is fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=716\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-716\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-716\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0025-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0025.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0025-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grass cut, winters sugars exhausted, the shallow plane making for either small two legged or four legged critters a chance to bounce uninhibited across the cool damp morning grass, mom dropping down to the base of a favorite box elder, bushed heavily by spring growth, that worm an offering to the youngster who emerges unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>Popping up and down with relative joy, baby bird wanders in and out of the sun and into tall green grasses, mom demonstrating flight to a vertical branch in a nearby tender pile which awaits a blazing, her cajoling bit by bit, by day&#8217;s end, nubile junior has become a master flyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sliding from the top of a large white balled light post, a robin\u2019s perch precarious, Squawk, squawwk, squawwwk, another two birds work distraction from nearby branches. Stray-kitty ponders the toy morsel, plump from its Ma\u2019s attentive feeding, worms abundant in this riverside haven, fresh rains have top soil moistened for the savvy winged workers. Realizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","category-seasons","category-universe","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}