{"id":429,"date":"2003-05-06T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/"},"modified":"2003-05-06T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-06T01:01:00","slug":"429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/429\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"heron4.jpg\" alt=\"It ain't yella, but it's a b-i-g bird!\" border=0 height=119 width=130> I had one of those magical moments this morning while I was getting ready for work &#8211; I was getting a cup of coffee when I looked out of our kitchen window and saw a Great Blue Heron sitting on top of the privacy screen of our deck. This isn&#8217;t him in the picture, but that&#8217;s OK, because I looked at a whole bunch of pictures on Google, and you just can&#8217;t get the sense that this thing is like 42&#8243; tall. He was bigger than the wild turkeys that have also passed through, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that if he&#8217;d been inside the kitchen there with me, he could easily have eaten off our counters.<\/p>\n<p><image src=\"tots.jpg\" alt=\"Spuds\" border=0 height=71 width=127> Hey, here&#8217;s a neat thing. I&#8217;ve discovered that it works great to cook Tater Tots on a piece of aluminum foil on the top rack of my gas grill. I make a little tray and spray it with cooking spray and put the Tots out while the grill is warming up and I&#8217;m in making the burgers. They get done just in time to come off with the burgers, you don&#8217;t have to heat up the oven or dirty a pan, and I think they come out especially crisp and delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had one of those magical moments this morning while I was getting ready for work &#8211; I was getting a cup of coffee when I looked out of our kitchen window and saw a Great Blue Heron sitting on top of the privacy screen of our deck. This isn&#8217;t him in the picture, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/429\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}