{"id":19,"date":"2007-08-12T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-08-12T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T17:36:00","slug":"sleep-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":">Sleep Deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Rr9MSYNyi1I\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/JnWTMjqoF4E\/s1600-h\/Eastern+screech+owl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Rr9MSYNyi1I\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/JnWTMjqoF4E\/s400\/Eastern+screech+owl.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097877181828336466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I&#8217;ve been awakened several consecutive nights by this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlpages.com\/owls.php?genus=Megascops&amp;species=asio\">owl<\/a>.  If you click on both the &#8220;A&#8221; sound and the &#8220;B&#8221; sound you&#8217;ll hear what wakens me!  It&#8217;s a soothing sound, and I find it is bringing up some very old memories of  sleepless nights full of teenage angst when I would be lulled to sleep by a whippoorwill. If you&#8217;ve never heard a whippoorwill I truly hope someday you will. It&#8217;s an indescribable experience that is heightened by occurring in the depths of night.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt if I&#8217;ll ever get to see this owl, so hearing its call is quite intriguing.  I&#8217;m imagining him (although possibly her) sitting in a spot like this photo, in a tree somewhere nearby, maybe even in my yard.  I have heard him for several years now, in the summer when our windows are open.  While the voice of a whippoorwill will always bring back details from my bedroom from the mid-70s, now the sound of an Eastern screech owl will be the voice of my menopausal, empter nester years when I don&#8217;t often sleep through the night.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, during my late evening walks I&#8217;ve been hearing what might be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlpages.com\/owls.php?genus=Bubo&amp;species=virginianus\">Great Horned Owl<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not completely sure about this as the owl in my neighborhood has a much lower pitched call.  All I know for certain is that it is not the same owl as the one that awakens me later in the night.  It&#8217;s interesting to realize that there is such bird life in my suburban town, although my town is rather undeveloped, so less manicured than most &#8216;burbs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a &#8220;birder,&#8221; so it&#8217;s not as if I&#8217;m on the lookout for them, and this means I&#8217;m sometimes pleasantly surprised by my surroundings.  Waking and drifting back to sleep to the sounds of owls (or whippoorwills!) is quite a good experience, something I highly recommend!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>I&#8217;ve been awakened several consecutive nights by this owl. If you click on both the &#8220;A&#8221; sound and the &#8220;B&#8221; sound you&#8217;ll hear what wakens me! It&#8217;s a soothing sound, and I find it is bringing up some very old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=19\">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":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serendipity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}