{"id":1049,"date":"2008-01-29T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:50","slug":"the-expectant-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"The expectant mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/R5-no2rGDCI\/AAAAAAAAADE\/hlKQodHDpJg\/s1600-h\/IMG_4669.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/R5-no2rGDCI\/AAAAAAAAADE\/hlKQodHDpJg\/s160\/IMG_4669.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"clear:both;float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>This morning, as I walked the Lake Pine trail, I noticed the swans had begun building their nest in anticipation of egg-laying and little &#8220;swannettes&#8221; arriving in the spring. It&#8217;s always such a waiting game for us human walkers, runners, bikers; watching, watching for the eggs to hatch, then hoping, &#038; many of us praying, they survive to teenage-hood (when they fly off to new horizons), which, sadly, most don&#8217;t. We all root for the graceful, elegant couple who struggle diligently to raise a family. <br \/>I&#8217;ll have to post photos of the &#8220;sygnets&#8221; this year:)<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:RIGHT'><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;This morning, as I walked the Lake Pine trail, I noticed the swans had begun building their nest in anticipation of egg-laying and little &#8220;swannettes&#8221; arriving in the spring. It&#8217;s always such a waiting game for us human walkers, runners, bikers; watching, watching for the eggs to hatch, then hoping, &#038; many of us praying, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}