{"id":14349,"date":"2022-02-27T17:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:34:35","slug":"blogathon-27-22-bangin-away-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14349","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 27\/22: Bangin&#8217; away all day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are incredibly fortunate to live in a very small rural village in the middle of the countryside. On a still Sunday you can stand in our garden and listen to the church bells. The farming in these parts is arable; the fields behind our house grow various cereals on rotation. A few times a year there&#8217;ll be some tractor action out there, but for the most part we just listen to the sound of crops growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except farmers like their crops to grow and produce a yield that can be harvested. Birds have other ideas. So to discourage the feathery little <s>bastards<\/s> darlings Farmer Giles (name changed to protect the innocent) has installed half a dozen gas-powered bird scarers around their sizeable acreage. These things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Boom.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Boom.jpg 308w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Boom-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first scarer sounds at 7am weekdays and 7.30am weekends. This is very considerate. It sounds like a large 12-bore shotgun and it fires a double tap. The last one goes off at 5pm. This too sounds like a shotgun and is also very considerate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the ones that go off in between sound like heavy artillery. As in heavily-armoured self-propelled artillery:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Big-gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14351\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s at least one dog in the village petrified of the really loud stuff. I saw him a couple of days ago clinging to his owner&#8217;s leg and shivering in fright. Poor thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are incredibly fortunate to live in a very small rural village in the middle of the countryside. On a still Sunday you can stand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}