{"id":696,"date":"2012-02-28T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:36:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:36:02","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-54-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things:  days 54-58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23rd Feb &#8211; Driving in blazing sunlight, I entered a short tunnel and my eyes didn&#8217;t adjust.\u00a0 Everything went dark and I had to trust my knowledge of the road for a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>24th Feb &#8211; Discovered that Google makes finding a Justice of the Peace easy.\u00a0 I gave it a suburb and it listed the local JPs in order of distance in metres from my house, though I hadn&#8217;t given an exact address.\u00a0 I like the knowledge Google has but I hate it knowing where I am.<\/p>\n<p>25th Feb &#8211; This afternoon I read about Shepheard&#8217;s Hotel for two hours so I could write a factual paragraph for the Indulge challenge.\u00a0 I began the weekly photo challenges with just pictures in mind;\u00a0 now the writing matters.<\/p>\n<p>26th Feb &#8211; A black crow picked up a white cockatoo feather, flew up onto a fence, held the feather under its claw and tore it to shreds, the white scraps catching in the breeze and blowing away.<\/p>\n<p>27th Feb &#8211; When I asked a woman in a quilting shop to tell me the difference between cotton and polyester thread, she said, &#8216;Well, this one&#8217;s cotton because it&#8217;s cotton.\u00a0 It&#8217;s made from cotton.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago we found a possum in the tool cupboard (see post of 16th Jan).\u00a0 Now there are two.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-708\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possummotherbaby_blogsize.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-708\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possummotherbaby_blogsize.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possummotherbaby_blogsize.jpeg 970w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possummotherbaby_blogsize-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possummotherbaby_blogsize-768x527.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Possum mother and baby in the tool cupboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23rd Feb &#8211; Driving in blazing sunlight, I entered a short tunnel and my eyes didn&#8217;t adjust.\u00a0 Everything went dark and I had to trust my knowledge of the road for a few seconds. 24th Feb &#8211; Discovered that Google makes finding a Justice of the Peace easy.\u00a0 I gave it a suburb and it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;366 unusual things:  days 54-58&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[18,41,7,8,36,23],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-18","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-possum","tag-unusual"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}