{"id":5280,"date":"2012-10-02T11:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2012-10-02T11:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:05:52","slug":"spike-the-roadrunner-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike the Roadrunner (an update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC09837\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 2px 0px 5px 10px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC09837\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09837.jpg\" width=\"528\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a>I wrote about Spike the Roadrunner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner\/\">a month ago<\/a> and here\u2019s a little update with <a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\">a few new photos<\/a> (of the hundreds I\u2019ve taken \u2013 he\u2019s very photogenic, as you can see).<\/p>\n<p>We had quite a scare a couple of weeks ago. Mer had fed Spike his morning mouse. We were standing within arm\u2019s reach of Spike, who was perched on the wall between us and the neighbor\u2019s yard. Suddenly, Spooky the black cat leapt from the far side of the wall and landed on Spike. It was as startling as any horror movie. Spike squawked, Mer shrieked, and I exclaimed, \u201cSon of a Bitch!\u201d to my own great surprise. Spike managed to fly off. Spooky disappeared \u2013 lucky for him, because I was stalking him brick in hand. Spike ran down the road toward Indian School and its traffic. We watched him run around the corner, so we knew he was probably OK but feared we\u2019d never see him again.<\/p>\n<p>To our great relief, Spike clattered for food from the rooftop the next morning. He looked a bit disheveled but uninjured. He doesn\u2019t return every day or twice a day, as he used to, but we hope that means better chances for his survival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC09838\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC09838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09838.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC09845\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC09845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09845.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner-an-update\/\">Spike the Roadrunner (an update)<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/wild\">Ah, Wilderness!<\/a>.  Thank you for subscribing. <a href=\"mailto:mark@mjhinton.com\">Let me know what you think<\/a>. peace, <em style=\"color: red\">mjh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about Spike the Roadrunner a month ago and here&rsquo;s a little update with a few new photos (of the hundreds I&rsquo;ve taken &ndash; he&rsquo;s very photogenic, as you can see). We had quite a scare a couple of weeks ago. Mer had fed Spike his morning mouse. We were standing within arm&rsquo;s reach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner-an-update\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner-an-update\/\">Spike the Roadrunner (an update)<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/wild\">Ah, Wilderness!<\/a>.  Thank you for subscribing. <a href=\"mailto:mark@mjhinton.com\">Let me know what you think<\/a>. peace, <em>mjh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,7],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wild","category-photos","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}