{"id":3349,"date":"2020-02-10T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:45:42","slug":"birds-and-monster-and-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/archives\/3349","title":{"rendered":"birds and monster and dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day a man drives his old car into Mendocino, parks across the street from the old Oddfellows Hall, and throws food scraps out for the ravens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/meeting-of-the-minds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3350\" alt=\"meeting of the minds\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/meeting-of-the-minds-940x1024.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/meeting-of-the-minds-940x1024.jpg 940w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/meeting-of-the-minds-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/meeting-of-the-minds.jpg 1175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We came upon a beached sea monster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beached-sea-monster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3351\" alt=\"beached sea monster\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beached-sea-monster-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beached-sea-monster-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beached-sea-monster-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beached-sea-monster.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They started their family in a seasonal pond near the high school and then decided to move to the islands just off the headlands. To get to their new home, they had to walk through town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/the-geese-family-part-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3352\" alt=\"the geese family part 2\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/the-geese-family-part-2-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/the-geese-family-part-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/the-geese-family-part-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/the-geese-family-part-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The gulls gather at the mouth of Big River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/big-river-gulls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3353\" alt=\"big river gulls\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/big-river-gulls-1024x908.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/big-river-gulls-1024x908.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/big-river-gulls-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/big-river-gulls.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Molly waits patiently for the humans to get the ball rolling again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dog-and-ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3354\" alt=\"dog and ball\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dog-and-ball-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dog-and-ball-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dog-and-ball-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dog-and-ball.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day a man drives his old car into Mendocino, parks across the street from the old Oddfellows Hall, and throws food scraps out for the ravens. We came upon a beached sea monster. &nbsp; They started their family in a seasonal pond near the high school and then decided to move to the islands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[544,571,5760,2944,5761,5759,34,1702,5758,2291,9,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}