{"id":153,"date":"2010-09-22T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=153"},"modified":"2010-09-28T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:31:55","slug":"when-quercus-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"When Quercus Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The natives are restless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No, not the people; the trees.  The neighborhood contains a large percentage of oaks, whose acorns have ripened enough to start dropping.  Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but they seem unusually noisy this year as they thump off of car hoods and crack against the sidewalks.  I get pelted pretty hard walking to school, too.  It puts me in mind of the angry and sinister trees that populate certain fairy tale woods.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it isn&#8217;t just me.  Crop yields vary from year to year, according to the weather; quite possibly this has been a bumper year for acorns, for size or quantity or both.  If so, we got the short end of the exchange.  Judging by our early trip to the pick-your-own orchard, it&#8217;s been a lousy year for apples, and I&#8217;d rather have apples than acorns any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an aggressive sign of autumn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}