{"id":160,"date":"2008-02-18T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2008-02-18T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T14:32:00","slug":"a-difficult-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"A difficult interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, we are bringing you another informative and enlightening interview from out here in the country. You have seen some photos from around our bird feeder before, but you haven’t seen these visitors yet. They are here every day but not the easiest diners to get along with. They seem pushy and rather rude, so we hope that we can address some of those issues with them today. I happen to have it on good authority [the Juncos are terrible gossips] that this is a married couple and their names are Harriet and Bob.\"\"Intrepid Interviewer: Excuse me – can I have a minute of your time? I’d like to ask you a few questions if that would be okay.\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168328912701201106\"<\/a>Harriet: Who is that?
<\/span>Bob: Don’t talk to her!<\/span>
Harriet: Why not? She looks okay to me.<\/span>
\"\"Bob: I hate how she is always out here with that noisy box thing – click click click click, pointing it everywhere. Drives me nuts! Stop looking at her – just pretend you don’t notice her. <\/span>
Harriet: Oh honestly Bob – you are such a grouch sometimes. I still think she seems okay. If you don’t like her, we could just fly away you know. She doesn’t look like she could fly.<\/span>
Bob: Fly away? Hello? I am eating here! Let her<\/strong> fly away. Stop looking at her I said!<\/span>
Harriet: Fine, I will ignore her. Stop eating all those sunflower seeds – you know that they will give you terrible gas later!<\/span>
\"\"Harriet: I can’t look – is she still there?<\/span>
Bob: She is still there. Can’t you hear that clicking box she is pointing over here. What a pain. This is hardly worth the bother today. \"\"<\/span>Intrepid Interviewer: Um, hello? Can I talk to you guys for a minute? Really – I just have a few questions and then I will leave you to your lunch.
\"\"Harriet: Hi – I am not supposed to talk to you but I think you are fine and I also want to thank you for putting all this great food out here for us all the time and I don’t mind that clicking box thing but my husband, Bob says it drives him crazy, so I am not supposed to talk to you because if we don’t talk to you, you will get bored and go away and then he can eat in peace without anyone bothering him but really I think he is just crabby and I don’t mind talking to you and I like the view here and I like it even better in the summer when you have all those nice plants out here and it is cool and shady and I will even bring my babies here next year so they can have some of this delicious bird seed that you put out here for us and I thi…
\"\"<\/span>Bob: ENOUGH<\/strong>! Oh man – now she will never leave us alone. I am out of here. The people across the road have a feeder and no one up there ever<\/strong> comes out to point things at us or try and talk to us. I’ll be home later, but don’t wait up for me because I am going to meet some of the boys later up by the pine trees.<\/span>
Harriet: Oh fine Bob! You don’t have to yell! I was just trying to be a little friendly. Go off with your friends and don’t give any thought at all to my<\/em> needs. I’ll just go home and sweep the nest and ….. oh, I just can’t even talk to you right now!<\/span>
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So that kind of ended the whole interview thing for today. Maybe I will try the chickadees – they are much more open and sharing birds and I am pretty sure they like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, we are bringing you another informative and enlightening interview from out here in the country. You have seen some photos from around our bird feeder before, but you haven’t seen these visitors yet. They are here every day … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}