{"id":1503,"date":"2013-08-28T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2013-08-28T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:26:25","slug":"slippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/slippy\/","title":{"rendered":"Slippy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image\"<\/a>This guy made me laugh. I was leaving the beach after one of those evening swims that fills me up with good stuff. \u00a0(I’m thinking specifically calmness and good feelings, but more on that later.) \u00a0I was picking my way across the beach towards the steps when I heard the “gronk” of a Great Blue heron and turned to see him flying low over the water. \u00a0They’re so big and gawky, like flying dinosaurs. \u00a0This one landed on the soft top of this boat and it was all good until he thought he’d take a little step.\"Image<\/a>Whoa. \u00a0The top is made of cloth and must give quite a lot as he steps. \u00a0Add in some waves and he looked like he was on an ice rink, fast-stepping back and forth from edge to edge.\"Image<\/a>To the right, to the right.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a>OK wait. \u00a0Tighten it up.<\/p>\n

Hold it.<\/p>\n

Hold it.<\/p>\n

OK. \u00a0All good. Straighten up… slowly…. slowly…..\"Image<\/a>….whoooooa. \u00a0Here we go again.<\/p>\n

He did that back and forth, over and over.<\/p>\n

I liked his stubbornness though. \u00a0He didn’t fly away, just kept fighting it.<\/p>\n

I stood watching and laughing, but with my own teetering challenge. \u00a0I had a head full of water from swimming and diving down underwater and doing handstands, and when I slog out of the sea with that headful I have the balance of a boat-roof-dancing heron, myself. \u00a0I stood with feet on separate logs and tried to stay solid as I snapped pictures. \u00a0So while this guy did his swoop dance out there, I sort of did a minor version myself. \u00a0Two stubborn goofballs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy made me laugh. I was leaving the beach after one of those evening swims that fills me up with good stuff. \u00a0(I’m thinking …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[20,34,7,24,12,23,25,56,55,26,45,58,35],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-inspiration","tag-arg","tag-coast","tag-colours","tag-critters","tag-inspirations","tag-just-having-fun","tag-life","tag-oops","tag-sea","tag-summer-palette","tag-taking-a-breath","tag-view-from-my-beach","tag-wet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}