{"id":10754,"date":"2022-09-06T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=10754"},"modified":"2022-09-06T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:07:37","slug":"labor-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=10754","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what most people did for the holiday weekend, but we didn&#8217;t do much &#8211; got some pizza, finished a few series, watched a couple of movies, listened to some music, and visited a nearby park. <\/p>\n<p>I was bummed that I decided to leave my camera at home because I spotted some juvenile wood ducks! They were too far to capture with my phone&#8217;s camera, and if I hadn&#8217;t viewed them with binoculars, I would have assumed they were mallards. Joe didn&#8217;t believe that they were wood ducks but I&#8217;m 99% sure they were based on the extra feathers on the back of their heads, the white markings on their cheeks, and their distinctive red eyes. <\/p>\n<p>They looked a lot like this (NOT my photo):<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wood-Duck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wood-Duck-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We had hot dogs, pasta salad, and corn on the cob yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_8605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_8605-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t feel like firing up the grill or boiling anything, so we used the microwave for the corn and the air fryer for the hot dogs; everything came out great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what most people did for the holiday weekend, but we didn&#8217;t do much &#8211; got some pizza, finished a few series, watched a couple of movies, listened to some music, and visited a nearby park. I was bummed that I decided to leave my camera at home because I spotted some juvenile wood ducks! They were too far to capture with my phone&#8217;s camera, and if I hadn&#8217;t viewed them with binoculars, I would have assumed they were mallards. Joe didn&#8217;t believe that they were wood ducks but I&#8217;m 99% sure they were based on the extra feathers on the back of their heads, the white markings on their cheeks, and their distinctive red eyes. They looked a lot like this (NOT my photo): We had hot dogs, pasta salad, and corn on the cob yesterday. We didn&#8217;t feel like firing up the grill or boiling anything, so <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=10754\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754\/revisions\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}