{"id":5150,"date":"2011-12-29T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T15:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2012-01-02T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:33:31","slug":"between-naps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/12\/between-naps\/","title":{"rendered":"Between naps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5151\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Jan.Mill_.Cover_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Jan.Mill_.Cover_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jan.Mill.Cover\" width=\"125\" height=\"138\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5151\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duncan Hoge<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always said that if I could have my way about it, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d go into hibernation for the months of January and February.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>After all the holiday mass-consumption and New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reveling, a long nap certainly seems to be in order come Jan. 1. Plus, it can get really cold, and it could even snow. (I know some of you lunatics actually like snow, but really, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cold, inconvenient and makes getting from one place to the next that much more difficult.) <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it seems as if we all go into sleepwalking mode this time of year anyway, hurrying mindlessly from one appointment to the next before collapsing on the couch for the evening \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d miss out on all that much.  <\/p>\n<p>But as it turns out, we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bears, and we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take a two-month pause to get some sleep and arise when spring comes. Bummer. So let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s make the best of it. <\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to read Mary Parker Sonis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5153\">accounts<\/a> of early-morning trips into waist-deep water to catch a glimpse of the hooded mergansers in their January best. I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be going out to have a look for myself anytime soon (thanks for the picture, Mary!), but I will be searching for my own January hooded merganser.<br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cSusan Dickson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always said that if I could have my way about it, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d go into hibernation for the months of January and February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}