{"id":3197,"date":"2015-07-05T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T08:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2015-07-05T18:43:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T08:43:53","slug":"random-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3197","title":{"rendered":"WAYLAID BY A KOALA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3198\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_337.jpg\" alt=\"bugalugs_337\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_337.jpg 531w, https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_337-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a>I was going to write about the novel I&#8217;ve just finished &#8211; Margaret Drabble&#8217;s <em>The Garrick Year &#8211; <\/em>but got waylaid as I looked in various picture files on\u00a0 my desk- top. Somehow the koala pictures got into a file called Book Covers. Perhaps it was hiding.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure it didn&#8217;t enjoy our impromptu\u00a0 session with the camera but I couldn&#8217;t resist &#8211; it&#8217;s not often I get to stand so close to a wild animal. Actually, it didn&#8217;t want to be close to me at all; we stopped the car when we saw it crossing the road and it clambered up a very small tree to get away from us as quickly as it could. My camera has a zoom so don&#8217;t worry, I wasn&#8217;t terrorizing the poor thing by getting right in its face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_298.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3199\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_298.jpg\" alt=\"bugalugs_298\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_298.jpg 531w, https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_298-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_335.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3200\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_335.jpg\" alt=\"bugalugs_335\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_335.jpg 531w, https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_335-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3201\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_333.jpg\" alt=\"bugalugs_333\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_333.jpg 531w, https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bugalugs_333-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write about the novel I&#8217;ve just finished &#8211; Margaret Drabble&#8217;s The Garrick Year &#8211; but got waylaid as I looked in various picture files on\u00a0 my desk- top. Somehow the koala pictures got into a file &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3197\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}