{"id":27475,"date":"2020-01-28T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27475"},"modified":"2020-01-28T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:14:22","slug":"a-fresh-coat-of-paint-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/28\/a-fresh-coat-of-paint-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fresh Coat of Paint, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the unknown picture of a fish in the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/28\/a-fresh-coat-of-paint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>TMORA<\/strong><\/em> exhibit<\/a>, a reader has an identification:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201ctop creature\u201d is a pike (Esox lucius) by the way. They are native to North America as well as Northern Europe and Russia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cool. Thank you. A fish often mentioned in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of a story involving either a pike or a northern I heard many years ago. The teller of the story was canoeing on a Minnesota lake one day &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; when I saw a squirrel looking at an acorn, sitting out on a tree limb above a little bay. Finally, the squirrel went scampering out onto the branch, eager for his prize, and &gt;<strong>SPLASH!<\/strong>&lt; a pike leaped from the water, clamped the rascal in its jaws, and took the squirrel away to a watery fate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My goodness!<\/em>\u00a0exclaimed the audience.<\/p>\n<p><em>No, that&#8217;s not the amazing part<\/em>, said the storyteller.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Really?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The storyteller nodded. <em>Yep. Not five minutes later, I saw that pike again. He was balancing an acorn on his nose &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the unknown picture of a fish in the TMORA exhibit, a reader has an identification: The \u201ctop creature\u201d is a pike (Esox lucius) by the way. They are native to North America as well as Northern Europe and Russia. Cool. Thank you. A fish often mentioned in Minnesota. Which \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/28\/a-fresh-coat-of-paint-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27477,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27475\/revisions\/27477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}