{"id":9609,"date":"2019-09-20T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2021-05-12T22:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:17:28","slug":"not-so-nasty-news-sept-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=9609","title":{"rendered":"Not so Nasty News SEPT 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Y-1-bar-in-shower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9603\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Y-1-bar-in-shower.jpg 426w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Y-1-bar-in-shower-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 85vw, 426px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #1:  In the back yard <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2019\/09\/20\/friends-body-buried-maine-backyard\"><strong>Link<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-1-Rest-In-Peace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9607\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-1-Rest-In-Peace.jpg 480w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-1-Rest-In-Peace-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/>I guess they did not ask, but you are not supposed to bury your friends in your back yard. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #2:  birds fly<\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-2-starlings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9606\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-2-starlings.jpg 484w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-2-starlings-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 85vw, 484px\" \/>This past week we have seen hundreds of birds sitting on the utility wires along Naneum Road; not flying.  Off by himself was a banded Kingfisher.<br \/>\nAnyway, I found some information on the synchronized flights that are beginning to be understood. Modern technology has been helpful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/animals\/blogs\/stunning-bird-ballet-interrupts-ad-shoot\"><strong>Murmurations &#8211; example<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/animals\/stories\/the-incredible-science-behind-starling-murmurations\"><strong> Beginning to figure it out<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #3:  Dog&#8217;s noses \u2013 thick woods<\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-3-dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"311\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-3-dog.jpg 174w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/w-3-dog-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 85vw, 174px\" \/>We have always liked a good dog story. K-9 unit is about a year old. The lost kid, just 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/police-dog-sniffs-out-missing-three-year-old-autistic-child-in-florida-in-under-30-minutes\"><strong>Deputy Bloodhound<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #4:  Crash time <\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Capturew-4-wreck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"259\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Capturew-4-wreck.jpg 528w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Capturew-4-wreck-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 85vw, 528px\" \/>Despite popular ideas, Seattle and the Puget Sound region does not receive lots of rain in a short period of time.  When it does happen, drivers make a mess of the situation. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/crash-course-needed-for-driving-in-the-rain-60-collisions-reported-sunday\"><strong>Rain,  highways, cars, crash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.<br \/>\nJohn <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Item #1: In the back yard LinkI guess they did not ask, but you are not supposed to bury your friends in your back yard. Item #2: birds fly This past week we have seen hundreds of birds sitting on the utility wires along Naneum Road; not flying. Off by himself was a banded Kingfisher. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=9609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not so Nasty News SEPT 20th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-2uZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9611,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions\/9611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}