{"id":2104,"date":"2009-04-14T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2009-04-14T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:55:09","slug":"the-rhythm-of-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-rhythm-of-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"The rhythm of the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross posted from my <a href=\"http:\/\/bowenislandjournal.blogspot.com\/\">Bowen Island Journal<\/a>, my long running blog about the place where I live:<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<div>Another beautiful morning here: clear and still.  \u00a0In the dawn chorus, there are a pair of chickadees nesting across the road from us that are the champion singers.  \u00a0They are doing their little call which is a two note \u00a0descending \u00a0tweet-tweet.  \u00a0One chickadee does it and the other follows on with the same song, but sung a note lower.  \u00a0Their rhythm is steady, and when they get out of \u00a0synch, they stop and start again.  \u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the meantime, the crows and ravens are cawing, the flickers are drumming, towhees wheezing in the undergrowth.  \u00a0The nature of spring means that everyone is repeating their various sounds on a regular interval, and the forest is full of rhythm.  \u00a0Once in a while, warblers and wrens let loose with solos over top of the whole thing.  \u00a0It&#8217;s as if someone has sampled all of these birds and put them into a bed track.  \u00a0You could rhyme over top of it easily.  \u00a0The rhythm shifts and changessubtly \u00a0but it is so engaging that I lay in my sleeping bag for a full hour listening raptly to the chorus, and feeling all of these beats beneath it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross posted from my Bowen Island Journal, my long running blog about the place where I live: \u00a0 Another beautiful morning here: clear and still. \u00a0In the dawn chorus, there are a pair of chickadees nesting across the road from us that are the champion singers. \u00a0They are doing their little call which is a two note \u00a0descending \u00a0tweet-tweet. \u00a0One chickadee does it and the other follows on with the same song, but sung a note lower. \u00a0Their rhythm is steady, and when they get out of \u00a0synch, they stop and start again. \u00a0 In the meantime, the crows and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-xW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}