{"id":1435,"date":"2012-06-26T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2012-06-26T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:43:06","slug":"involving-animals-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Things Involving Animals Just Keep Happening to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting all Animal Planet on you lately<\/a> is not part of my master plan.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that it just keeps happening to me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So here we go again. A few days ago, LCB and I took a drive through the woods and found a new stretch of beach to explore. In fact, it turned out to be the very stretch I tried to find a few weeks earlier while looking for my son on his crab-hunting field trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>LCB was being LCBish, so I was busy being the designated listener during the first few minutes of our walk on the new beach, stopping only to comment on the rather large, hard-to-miss horseshoe crabs scattered along the shoreline.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, I have no idea why I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take pictures of the horseshoe crabs on the beach, since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been labeled, by the small people anyway, as the camera-wielding freak of the family ever since I started this whole blog thingamajig.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Yet I somehow came to my senses after we left the beach and snapped a shot of the remains of a shell someone left by the side a tree. Really, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fascinating to think about how my mind works in a not-so-much sort of way. Holla if you can relate here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Anyhow, while walking, suddenly we heard what sounded like the pitter-patter of a thousand small feet scattering before us. We looked down and there were hundreds, probably even thousands of tiny crabs scrambling all around us.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I can still wake and sense when one of the small people shifts slightly in the middle of the night, but it took more than five minutes to notice I was surrounded by thousands of crabs. If this had been a Pixar movie, the crabs would have long ago tied us up and carried us off to their giant, two-inch crab leader, and the small people would have had to come rescue us with the help of an animated but sadly headless Teletubby.<\/p>\n

Then again, while this scenario sounds<\/em> a little far-fetched, I doubt in the end it would feel<\/em> that much different from our normal daily activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting all Animal Planet on you lately is not part of my master plan. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that it just keeps happening to me. So here we go again. A few days ago, LCB and I took a drive through the woods and found a new stretch of beach to explore. In fact, it turned out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[1162,1163,1160,1130,1133,1161,105,100],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-beach-walks","tag-coastal-animal-life","tag-crabs","tag-crabs-on-the-beach","tag-fiddler-crabs","tag-horseshoe-crabs","tag-island-life","tag-island-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}