{"id":143,"date":"2011-09-07T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/2011\/09\/07\/little-quail\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:02:00","slug":"little-quail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Little Quail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3KMZY5kkqJA\/TmbCKXd_A1I\/AAAAAAAAAx8\/nkZVi_scc_U\/s1600\/Brown_Quail.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265px\" nba=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3KMZY5kkqJA\/TmbCKXd_A1I\/AAAAAAAAAx8\/nkZVi_scc_U\/s320\/Brown_Quail.jpg\" width=\"320px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>How she survives, I do not know.<\/p>\n<p>She is small, slow, flightless, and gives no evidence of being very smart.<\/p>\n<p>She appeared with another of her kind two months ago.&nbsp; The other disappeared shortly thereafter, and we&#8217;ve no idea where they came from to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>But two months later, she continues to appear in our front yard, looking for seed that falls from the bird feeders.<\/p>\n<p>Every evening I think must surely be her last.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I call her Little Quail.<\/p>\n<p>I gave thought to capturing her and thus extending her life, feeding her Purina quail food or something.<\/p>\n<p>But then I thought better.<\/p>\n<p>God knows how she survives the evenings, when the foxes, skunks, coyotes, and bobcats begin to prowl.&nbsp; Maybe she hides right under my nose, under the large ferns on the porch.<\/p>\n<p>But she survives, alone of her kind, and when she is gone I will be sorry.<\/p>\n<p>But I will be glad that she survived living free.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy Wikipedia: brown quail<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How she survives, I do not know. She is small, slow, flightless, and gives no evidence of being very smart. She appeared with another of her kind two months ago.&nbsp; The other disappeared shortly thereafter, and we&#8217;ve no idea where they came from to begin with. But two months later, she continues to appear in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-home-ranch","category-quail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}