{"id":458,"date":"2009-07-01T22:42:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T06:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2009-07-01T22:42:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T06:42:36","slug":"the-key-to-hoppiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"The key to hoppiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/froggiefront.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Froggie front\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/froggieside.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Froggie side\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/HotMud.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ASJazzFilmTV.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>Hot music for a temporarily warm amphibian.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I realize the mug shots of Kermit here make him look like the frog that ate Cleveland. He is, however, just over an inch long.<\/p>\n<p>He is also quite lucky: I narrowly avoided stepping on him and turning him into froggie puree as he sunbathed on my deck today. After the requisite photo shoot, I extended my seemingly gargantuan hand, into which he and his big smile readily hopped. We cooed at each other, (ok, I&#8217;m anthropomorphizing: I cooed at him, and he was probably thinking, &#8220;get me the heck outta here&#8221;), then I brought his slightly sticky, very green rubbery self over to a nice, bug-laden salal patch and placed him on a leaf the exact same hue. I hope I did not separate him from a large family that is now worrying about where Grampa Bubba went, getting ready to place his photo on the side of bait cartons around the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Hot music for a temporarily warm amphibian. I realize the mug shots of Kermit here make him look like the frog that ate Cleveland. He is, however, just over an inch long. He is also quite lucky: I narrowly avoided stepping on him and turning him into froggie puree [&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-458","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\/458"}],"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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}