{"id":1013,"date":"2014-08-23T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2014\/08\/23\/140823-quaileggs\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:11:10","slug":"140823-quaileggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/08\/23\/140823-quaileggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon me&#8230;could you spare some T-Rex urine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><acronym title=\"My Lovely Bride\">MLB<\/acronym> was trimming the ground cover on the east side of our yard and when she pulled back a section from the wall, this is what she found:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/quaileggs.jpg\" alt=\"Hatched quail eggs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As perceptive Gazette readers &#8211; which is both of you, I believe &#8211; will recall, we recently had a <a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/06\/15\/return_of_the_quail\/\">family of quail in our back yard<\/a>, including nine chicks. And I&#8217;m pretty sure there are nine hatched eggs in the above photo. So, exercising my excellent deductive skills, I have concluded that this <i>could<\/i> have been the nest from whence they sprung.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m not going on record with a conclusive statement because there&#8217;s always another possibility&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/jparkraptor.jpg\" alt=\"Jurassic Park raptor holding egg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB was trimming the ground cover on the east side of our yard and when she pulled back a section from the wall, this is what she found: As perceptive Gazette readers &#8211; which is both of you, I believe &#8211; will recall, we recently had a family of quail in our back yard, including&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/08\/23\/140823-quaileggs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pardon me&#8230;could you spare some T-Rex urine?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9216,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/9216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}