{"id":1414,"date":"2007-09-09T00:57:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T07:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2007-09-09T00:57:49","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T07:57:49","slug":"stupid-birds-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"Stupid birds are back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Vaux&#8217;s Swifts come back and roost in the chimney of the school across the street. The birds are only a little annoying. You can&#8217;t wash your car for a month, for example. The real annoyance is the people who come to watch the birds. There usually aren&#8217;t huge crowds until the middle of the month but there sure are a lot of people this year. It wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if I was able to just either stay away from 6-8PM or hide during that time, but I get dragged outside every weekend by a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Not much else has been going on lately. I got a Network Accessed Storage device from a friend and filled it full of 500GB hard drives. That means I spent $500 on computer crap that doesn&#8217;t work quite right. The joys of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Vaux&#8217;s Swifts come back and roost in the chimney of the school across the street. The birds are only a little annoying. You can&#8217;t wash your car for a month, for example. The real annoyance is the people who come to watch the birds. There usually aren&#8217;t huge crowds until the middle of the month but there sure are a lot of people this year. It wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if I was able to just either stay away from 6-8PM or hide during that time, but I get dragged outside every weekend by a friend. Not much else has been going on lately. I got a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stupid birds are back.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}