{"id":789,"date":"2013-07-11T15:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2013-07-11T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T15:26:14","slug":"the-daily-forest-report-july-11-2013-still-pickin-at-the-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Forest Report July 11, 2013 Still Pickin&#8217; At the Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-11-at-8.47.36-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-11-at-8.47.36-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-11 at 8.47.36 AM\" width=\"1022\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-11-at-8.47.36-AM.png 1022w, https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-11-at-8.47.36-AM-300x130.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still pickin&#8217; at the bones,&#8221; explained Richard. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want the New Vision to stink of carrion, do we?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, certainly not!<\/p>\n<p>I had met Richard Sebastian, a buzzard with a toe bearing the uncanny resemblance to Gautama the Buddha when scrutinized at exceedingly close range, decades ago in an alternative reality having a tangential relationship to my own misshapen imagination. Got that? Richard is an important character in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielskunze.com\/book_catalogue.html\">Muse Trilogy<\/a>&#8230; and here he was happily in flight&#8211; with carry-on (carrion) safely stowed&#8211; in <em>this<\/em> reality. Will wonders never cease!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jupiter conjuncts the Black Moon today,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And tomorrow the Phoenix rises.&#8221; Now he&#8217;s an astrologer too? Great. &#8220;Just a few more gristly bits to go&#8230; and then it&#8217;s all yours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future, of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh. That&#8217;s good. And so we shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still pickin&#8217; at the bones,&#8221; explained Richard. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want the New Vision to stink of carrion, do we?&#8221; Well, certainly not! I had met Richard Sebastian, a buzzard with a toe bearing the uncanny resemblance to Gautama the (&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=789\">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-forest-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}