{"id":1350,"date":"2011-06-22T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2011-06-23T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T17:47:59","slug":"a-fur-coat-in-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"A fur coat in summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/mink2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"[IMAGE] fur on the hoof\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/FiveSquared-clip.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/FiveSquaredpg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Furry music.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Summer is here, and I welcomed the Solstice by spending noontime dangling my legs over the jagged, igneous rocks in front of where I keep my pencils and scorepads. And most importantly, my erasers. Okay, I welcome most any warmish day this way, and along with a mug of coffee, I&#8217;m usually toting two cameras (wide and zoom lens) and a Kleenex. Always prepared.<\/p>\n<p>As I greeted summer, it greeted me with yet another San Juan Island Personal First: this fuzzy spirit, scrambling effortlessly across the [hundreds of] feet of shoreline [twelve feet] below my [merely two] feet. Initially I thought this was a sea otter&#8211; rare up here; instead, we get lots of river otters. Even though we&#8217;re on the sea and have no rivers. Go figure. Curious, I emailed the pix over to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orcawatcher.com\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Monika<\/b><\/a>  for her expert I.D. services. &#8220;That&#8217;s a mink!&#8221; she wrote back. I was thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of generations ago, a woman of any means might have a prized fur coat by her mid-twenties. Here I am, months from a happy fiftieth, and I&#8217;m just now getting my first one. And in a far more delightful and acceptable form. This is the only fur I&#8217;ve ever had, and will ever want. Lucky for him!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/mink1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"363\" alt=\"[IMAGE] fur on the hoof\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Furry music. Tweet Summer is here, and I welcomed the Solstice by spending noontime dangling my legs over the jagged, igneous rocks in front of where I keep my pencils and scorepads. And most importantly, my erasers. Okay, I welcome most any warmish day this way, and along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}