{"id":1550,"date":"2024-01-14T22:11:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T22:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2024-01-14T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T22:12:27","slug":"dont-let-me-be-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/01\/14\/dont-let-me-be-misunderstood\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let me be misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watling Street services, just off the A2, is my local petrol station. You might stop there as you head east from the M25 towards the North Kent coast. It&#8217;s cheaper than any of the places further out, and has a reasonable Spar attached. Strange to think of such a local facility being a place of succour for visitors from further afield, just passing through.<\/p>\n<p>We have several bird feeders in the garden. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/01\/09\/waiting-for-the-miracle\/\">Joshua&#8217;s job to keep them filled up<\/a>, and we have a lot of locals who frequent what we whimsically call Gravesend services. There&#8217;s a variety of fuel, or food, on offer, plus fresh water and a friendly welcome. The occasional cat or fox is scared off by the proprietors.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit quieter than normal today, as we had a visitor. I&#8217;m sure he just wanted to chat, but the locals were having none of it. Our hens wanted to tell me all about it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Shite hawk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/53464483304\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53464483304_c00578abc6_c.jpg\" alt=\"Shite hawk\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Um, can I get a falafel burger and some fruit juice, please?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They all came back when he&#8217;d gone, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watling Street services, just off the A2, is my local petrol station. You might stop there as you head east from the M25 towards the North Kent coast. It&#8217;s cheaper than any of the places further out, and has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/01\/14\/dont-let-me-be-misunderstood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-15minutepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}