{"id":1743,"date":"2008-10-09T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2013-06-08T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T23:48:43","slug":"nobody-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1743","title":{"rendered":"Nobody home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/nobody_home_36880.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Having a good flash is a must for any would-be photographer. This hole in the tree is actually a good eighteen feet or more above the ground! Thanks to a long lens and a very powerful flash, I was able to illuminate the hole to see if it had a critter in it. Sadly, there wasn&#8217;t. I was hoping to get another shot like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/squirrel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I&#8217;ve always wanted a chance to do better at this shot. This little guy lived in the tree in front of our church, and I took the photo shortly after I got my camera. At that time I hadn&#8217;t developed a steady hand and was also just learning how to work all the knobs and dials on the camera. Someday, however, I&#8217;m going to get my chance. I&#8217;ll be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a good flash is a must for any would-be photographer. This hole in the tree is actually a good eighteen feet or more above the ground! Thanks to a long lens and a very powerful flash, I was able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1743\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}