{"id":702,"date":"2013-02-22T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=702"},"modified":"2013-02-22T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:24:10","slug":"rain-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Rain Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?attachment_id=703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-703\" alt=\"S\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wetlands-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wetlands-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wetlands-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wetlands.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I always thought a rain delay in a baseball game was an indication of what a bunch of wussies were playing the game.\u00a0 No one cancels football.\u00a0 It just isn&#8217;t done.<\/p>\n<p>Digging in the mud with very heavy equipment is another thing altogether.\u00a0 Getting the driveway and extended drivable areas ready for heavy equipment has been challenging.\u00a0 But, it is done.<\/p>\n<p>The septic field has been marked off and now the construction team waits for the weather to cooperate.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 I concur.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above is not anywhere near the septic system or the building site.\u00a0 Rather, that photo is a small natural pool of water that I hope will be host to birds, deer, amphibians, and such.\u00a0 I consider it a treasure.<\/p>\n<p>So, Mother Nature needs to get on with this weekend&#8217;s storm and be done for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought a rain delay in a baseball game was an indication of what a bunch of wussies were playing the game.\u00a0 No one cancels football.\u00a0 It just isn&#8217;t done. Digging in the mud with very heavy equipment is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=702\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}