{"id":27429,"date":"2020-06-24T07:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=27429"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:30:15","slug":"i-like-birding-fracking-and-klezmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/i-like-birding-fracking-and-klezmer\/","title":{"rendered":"I LIKE BIRDING, FRACKING<br> AND KLEZMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I grew<\/strong> <\/span>up with a pair of binos around my neck. I lived near a park and saw vireos, cardinals and hawks. I got good at ID-ing birds by songs and calls. These days I tell my bandmates to check out birds on our road trips. Funk a Deli&#8217;s guitarist is always spotting hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Confession:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been on a birding vacation. Nobody wants to go with me. My wife doesn&#8217;t like the idea of walking slowly and craning her neck.<\/p>\n<p>Another<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">confession:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I like<\/strong><\/span> fracking. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time in southeast Ohio, mostly around Marietta. There\u2019s good birding <em>and<\/em> fracking there. The Ohio Valley is a micro-tropical climate. I rent a Hefner-style bachelor condo in Marietta. The condo has a big-screen TV, huge white couch and a ton of wine. The place comes furnished. I\u2019m not too far from the marsh in back of Kroger, where I go for all my birding and grocery needs. Here\u2019s a photo of me at rig 383 in northern Washington County, Ohio:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas-rig-bert-5_25_14-rig-383-washington-county-ohio-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"gas rig bert 5_25_14 rig 383 washington county ohio\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas-rig-bert-5_25_14-rig-383-washington-county-ohio-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas-rig-bert-5_25_14-rig-383-washington-county-ohio.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small><em>[fake profile \/ real photo]<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with a pair of binos around my neck. I lived near a park and saw vireos, cardinals and hawks. I got good at ID-ing birds by songs and calls. These days I tell my bandmates to check out birds on our road trips. Funk a Deli&#8217;s guitarist is always spotting hawks. Confession: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27429"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27833,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions\/27833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}