{"id":4471,"date":"2011-05-26T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T22:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:06:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:06:39","slug":"frog-pond-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Frog Pond Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The frog in my pond is rarely seen.\u00a0 We hear him sometimes, croaking or plopping, but sightings are rare.\u00a0 Maybe once a year.\u00a0 So imagine my surprise when I heard a plop in the swimming pool filter basket.\u00a0 I looked in and saw the frog.\u00a0 He was surprised himself and probably terrified he jumped out of the basket and swam to the bottom of the pool. \u00a0 I took this picture<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_1882\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5762349165\/img_1882.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5102\/5762349165_9b47769e01.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"IMG_1882\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and them used the skimmer net to scoop him back into the pond.\u00a0 At the end of the ordeal he was barely moving but twenty minutes later he had gone back into hiding.\u00a0 We have no idea how long he was in the swimming pool or even if he is a he.\u00a0 Lillian gave him the name Randolph Meyer and it has stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Randolph is bigger than an iPhone but smaller than an iPad.\u00a0 About the size of a large sunglasses case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"P6280004\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5762892226\/p6280004.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3285\/5762892226_110514c00b_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"P6280004\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lesson:\u00a0 A pool is not a pond.\u00a0 Or?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frog in my pond is rarely seen.\u00a0 We hear him sometimes, croaking or plopping, but sightings are rare.\u00a0 Maybe once a year.\u00a0 So imagine my surprise when I heard a plop in the swimming pool filter basket.\u00a0 I looked in and saw the frog.\u00a0 He was surprised himself and probably terrified he jumped out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pond-cam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1a7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}