{"id":1901,"date":"2019-02-16T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2019-07-21T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:23:17","slug":"soaked-to-the-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/soaked-to-the-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaked to the skin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 this little Anhinga yesterday, stretched out his feathers\nto dry in the early morning sun. As I watched the steam coming up from his\nsodden feathers it made me think of how lucky we are to not have to hunt our\nfood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No need to creep through the underbrush, fighting off other\npredators, stealthily approaching the counter for that elusive quarter pounder\nwith cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I wander the trails here in central Florida, I see life\nand death struggles play out on every trail and it reinforces that we are all\njust part of a circle of life. &nbsp;And yet I cannot think of any other animal\nthat kills for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hunting has become a sport for humans however we may view it\nand this week\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s headline of that miserable excuse for a human, Bryan Harlan,\npaying over $100,000 to murder a beautiful, rare, and gentle mountain goat was\nnot just shocking but repulsive. If you haven\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t read the story, here it is:\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/13\/asia\/pakistan-markhor-goat-trophy-hunter-scli-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/13\/asia\/pakistan-markhor-goat-trophy-hunter-scli-intl\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite evidence to the contrary, I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t believe cruelty is\nnatural human trail but an aberration and maybe one day we will find the cure\nfor it \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 I live in hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a thoughtful week and be kind to the little creatures\nyou come across on your journey through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p8625.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p8625-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p8625-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p8625-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p8625-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p8625-1200x800.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/p8625.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 this little Anhinga yesterday, stretched out his feathers to dry in the early morning sun. As I watched the steam coming up from his sodden feathers it made me think of how lucky we are to not have to hunt our food. No need to creep through the underbrush, fighting off other predators, stealthily &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/soaked-to-the-skin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soaked to the skin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}