{"id":162,"date":"2007-10-11T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2007-10-11T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:39:23","slug":"coyote-on-the-way-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/coyote-on-the-way-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote on the way to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I drove to work this morning, I was bemoaning how the sun is rising south of east. (No surprise, there; it&#8217;s October.) As a result, the hills on either side of Yucca Valley don&#8217;t have as much shadow-highlighted relief as they did back in the summer. (They would, if I had been driving perpendicular to the sun&#8217;s light, but I was driving with the sun mostly behind me.) Anyway, I was thinking that it wasn&#8217;t as pretty as I&#8217;d like, and a coyote darted out onto the road. I didn&#8217;t even have to slow down for him. He caught a lizard and managed to keep an eye out for oncoming traffic in each direction, all at the same time. He darted back into a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;t=k&amp;om=1&amp;ll=34.100967,-116.418965&amp;spn=0.010163,0.014355&amp;z=16\">lot<\/a> full of Joshua Trees and was gone. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen one in the daylight around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I drove to work this morning, I was bemoaning how the sun is rising south of east. (No surprise, there; it&#8217;s October.) As a result, the hills on either side of Yucca Valley don&#8217;t have as much shadow-highlighted relief as they did back in the summer. (They would, if I had been driving perpendicular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-2C","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}