{"id":228,"date":"2021-10-21T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/?p=228"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:51:20","slug":"if-you-dig-it-they-will-come-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/uncategorized\/if-you-dig-it-they-will-come-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Dig It, They Will Come (and go)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The hand-dug four-foot by seven-foot micro-pond is probably my favorite feature of the garden. I can tell if it was raining while I\u2019ve been away by how full it is: quietly catching all the run-off on wet days and letting it slowly go on dry ones. There\u2019s always enough water in it to wash the mud off my carrots and radishes before I take them inside. But the best part was the appearance of amphibians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_9018-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_9018-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_9018-2-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_9018-2-768x728.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My daughter named him Mr. Jumps. Shortly, there was a Mrs. Jumps. (All guesswork, we have to admit.) Soon there was a pond full of the Jumpses who would catapult themselves from the edge into the water at our approach but didn\u2019t seem to mind beets being rinsed right next to them. I suppose they feel more confident in water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, one day in early fall, they were nowhere to be seen. Did Mr. Slithers get them all? I preferred to conclude that the hint of frost sent them into hibernation. The weather warmed unseasonably and a few reappeared. It\u2019s the middle of October and they seem gone for the year. But where do they go? Is there a frog dorm hidden among those grasses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_9232.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_9232.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_9232-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hand-dug four-foot by seven-foot micro-pond is probably my favorite feature of the garden. I can tell if it was raining while I\u2019ve been away by how full it is: quietly catching all the run-off on wet days and letting it slowly go on dry ones. There\u2019s always enough water in it to wash the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}