{"id":1587,"date":"2012-06-16T10:32:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2012-06-16T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T10:32:30","slug":"the-beat-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"The b(e)at goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As indeed does the rain.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily it held off last weekend when we attended Ciara&#8217;s first communion and confirmation, and allowed us a very brief but interesting picnic in the Kirkgate park, Kinross. \u00a0 There was an exhibition there hosted by various local wildlife and history interst groups and if we&#8217;d known there\u00a0 was going to be an open air barbeque then I wouldn&#8217;t have had to scamper around the kitchen pretending to put together said picnic then giving up and running to M&amp;S Simply Food aka the garage.\u00a0 The Bat Conservation Trust insisted we take home a wee knitted bat to join our colony here.\u00a0 You can see her below.\u00a0 \u00a0 The venue shortened the occasionally tortuous name choosing process.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who are interested, right now outside we have goldfinch, chaffinch, houses sparrow, blue tit and great tit.\u00a0 It is pouring with rain still, and we&#8217;re off to Dobbies to buy more bird food and quite possibly scones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1588\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1010075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1588\" title=\"Kevin, Keith, Karla, Kerouac, Kinross, Kate and Kismet\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1010075-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin, Keith, Karla, Kerouac, Kinross, Kate and Kismet\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin, Keith, Karla, Kerouac, Kinross, Kate and Kismet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As indeed does the rain.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily it held off last weekend when we attended Ciara&#8217;s first communion and confirmation, and allowed us a very brief but interesting picnic in the Kirkgate park, Kinross. \u00a0 There was an exhibition there hosted by various local wildlife and history interst groups and if we&#8217;d known there\u00a0 was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-wildlife","category-fife","category-scones","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}