{"id":5959,"date":"2016-11-10T08:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:09:27","slug":"tumbleweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=5959","title":{"rendered":"Tumbleweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we live in the city, occasionally we see something very typically Southwestern and desert-y in the city itself. For instance, I very briefly saw a roadrunner a few weeks ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016-09-11-15-00-16\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-09-11-15.00.16.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was too quick to get any footage of beyond the photos above (as one would expect), but this tumbleweed was a lot slower and just hanging around in the middle of the road:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-21-13.18.00-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-21-13.18.00-2-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"2016-10-21-13-18-00-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-21-13.18.00-2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-21-13.18.00-2-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-10-21-13.18.00-2-1024x669.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here is a short video of Chris playing with a tumbleweed:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_79823\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2bpSBLx7_Iw?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we live in the city, occasionally we see something very typically Southwestern and desert-y in the city itself. For instance, I very briefly saw a roadrunner a few weeks ago: That was too quick to get any footage&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}