{"id":1067,"date":"2010-03-03T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/03\/03\/avian-augury\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T04:14:30","slug":"avian-augury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1067","title":{"rendered":"Avian augury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March Exercise V &#8212;day three&#8212;<\/span> This time around, the discipline is less about the rigor of the clock and more about concentration and dispatch. My \u201cvision homework\u201d has become a key daily ritual, but hasn\u2019t locked onto a consistent time yet. I have an alarm hopelessly stuck in my cell phone that nobody can figure out how to cancel, so I think that 11:30 am will likely become the scheduled time. Departure for a lap swim was upon me before I realized the morning was spent, and on my walk to Centre I saw an omen of oncoming spring, high up in my favorite tree at McDowell Park. In the afternoon I learned about a new advertising assignment in the \u201cJacob Series\u201d for our bank client. Later, at the gathering of cycling advocates, I failed again to conceal my frustration concerning local officials. I\u2019ve lost the fire for all the bureaucratic orchestration that I once found so intriguing.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> A treetop speckled with crows against a cotton-ball sky <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> and their robust \u201chaw-haw\u201d as the creatures salute me with a propitious fly-by.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Previously on M-Ex&#8212;<\/span> Coffee-shop consultation with a friend no longer so close at hand. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/03\/03\/dawns-silent-majesty\/\"><em>(3\/3\/07)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Library time in my <em>chambre serein&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/redcrowcrop.jpg' alt='The Elusive Red Crow' title='The Elusive Red Crow'\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Exercise V &#8212;day three&#8212; This time around, the discipline is less about the rigor of the clock and more about concentration and dispatch. My \u201cvision homework\u201d has become a key daily ritual, but hasn\u2019t locked onto a consistent time yet. I have an alarm hopelessly stuck in my cell phone that nobody can figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,40,48,43,14,27,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}