{"id":813,"date":"2010-09-25T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-09-25T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:20:48","slug":"on-closer-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"On closer inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/blob1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" alt=\"[IMAGE]  lion's mane jellyfish\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to my Saturday morning. The warm air of the equinox insisted that I have breakfast on the deck. Ok, I didn&#8217;t argue. Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, strong coffee, English muffin and jelly&#8230; fish. Some people get Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses showing up unannounced at their door. I get this guy. A lion&#8217;s mane jelly, easily 16&#8243; across;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=291\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b> I&#8217;ve scribbled about them on these pages before <\/b><\/a> because they just mesmerize me. It&#8217;s sad that I always see them at the very end of their life, but then again, given their ferocious sting, I think that&#8217;s better than the alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closer view of my morning friend for you:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/blob3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"314\" alt=\"[IMAGE] lion's mane jellyfish\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/TrioforClAllegro.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/TrioforClpg1s.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>A trio for my trio.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>So, as I&#8217;m enjoying a silent conversation with this unexpected breakfast companion (good thing he didn&#8217;t have much to say; neither do I before noon), I hear a screech to my right.  I turn my head, look up, and there&#8217;s one of the two mating bald eagles with a nest in this particular tree, hanging out, looking for his own Saturday brunch:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagleview.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] eagle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closer view of him for you:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eaglecloser.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"211\" alt=\"[IMAGE] eagle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, so I admit that my eggs and coffee got a little cold because I spent more time with a camera in my hand than a fork. But I can have breakfast anytime. Nature, it always seems to me, is fleeting. Catch it while we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my Saturday morning. The warm air of the equinox insisted that I have breakfast on the deck. Ok, I didn&#8217;t argue. Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, strong coffee, English muffin and jelly&#8230; fish. Some people get Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses showing up unannounced at their door. I get this guy. A lion&#8217;s mane jelly, easily [&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-813","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\/813"}],"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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}