{"id":8617,"date":"2023-12-16T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2023-12-16T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T03:12:04","slug":"a-quiet-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=8617","title":{"rendered":"A quiet afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 6.14 miles before the running group Christmas Breakfast]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This afternoon we were back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdwfp.com\/wildlife-hunting\/wma\/region\/east-central\/okatibbee\/\">Okatibee <\/a>woods, in the hunting blind, overlooking that grass green field surrounded by winter-bare trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started around 2:20 pm and finished around three hours later.  It sprinkled a bit.  I heard a wood pecker.   I sipped my Gatorade and had some nibbles on a brownie.  I held my shotgun because I didn&#8217;t want to drop it against the side of the tent\/blind.  We didn&#8217;t talk because we wanted to be quiet.   We sat the whole time, looking out the little openings in the blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually the sprinkling stopped.  Later the light started to change.  We couldn&#8217;t see as far into the woods on the far side of the grass.  Eventually we could only see the grass area and the outline of the trees against a grey-blue sky. And it was still a little bit light when our legal hunting time expired.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We packed up the blind and walked back to the van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 6.14 miles before the running group Christmas Breakfast] This afternoon we were back in the Okatibee woods, in the hunting blind, overlooking that grass green field surrounded by winter-bare trees. We started around 2:20 pm and finished around three hours later. It sprinkled a bit. I heard a wood pecker. I sipped my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}