{"id":2036,"date":"2013-06-26T07:58:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donnaloren.net\/latestnews\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2013-06-26T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:59:48","slug":"snake-in-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/2013\/06\/26\/snake-in-the-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake In The Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2036 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/2013\/06\/26\/snake-in-the-grass\/snake-fb-shot-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Snake-FB-Shot-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/2013\/06\/26\/snake-in-the-grass\/snake-fb-shot-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Snake-FB-Shot-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>There are always consequences of our actions. Just yesterday I changed out the song on the <a title=\"DonnaLoren.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donnaloren.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">home page of my website<\/a> to the cover I did of <a title=\"Don't Bring Me Down\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dassi\/10-dont-bring-me-down-donna-loren\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Bring Me Down&#8221;<\/a>, written by Jeff Lynne. My favorite line in it, &#8220;You&#8217;re lookin&#8217; good just like a snake in the grass, one of these days I&#8217;m gonna kick your ass&#8221; (<em>my<\/em> liberty taken with original lyrics). Well, this morning as I bent down to water a potted jade plant, there below me lying on a patch of grass, is a young diamond-back rattler &#8211; rather cocked up when he heard me pouring the water. Where he chose to lay peacefully is the only patch of weeds I left remaining when weeding my gravel garden whose centerpiece is a bird bath. Hummingbirds, golden finches, blue jays and robins drink from that bath. And everyday I refresh it with fresh water because I know they rely on it. It&#8217;s completely awesome to witness my little sanctuary of birds and lizards, squirrels and raccoons, an occasional skunk and now the creature I used to fear most&#8230; a snake, resting in my garden.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are always consequences of our actions. Just yesterday I changed out the song on the home page of my website to the cover I did of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Bring Me Down&#8221;, written by Jeff Lynne. My favorite line in it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/2013\/06\/26\/snake-in-the-grass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaloren.com\/latestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}