{"id":191,"date":"2014-03-17T16:40:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-01-16T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:10:52","slug":"st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had planned on having a walk elsewhere after going into the parade in Longford but events conspired otherwise. So we set off into the afternoon with two mildly grumpy children who weren&#8217;t thrilled with being dragged around the forest for a second time in three days.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as usual the histrionics evaporated once we got into the forest. Unusually for St. Patrick&#8217;s day, it was quite a nice day with clear views to the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"193\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?attachment_id=193\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L820&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1395069196&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;56.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0201\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?fit=474%2C356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-193\" alt=\"DSCN0201\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0201.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dogs needed the walk anyway, and they were quite delighted to be getting so much exercise &#8211; three walks in three days is pretty good going for them.<\/p>\n<p>You could also see that some of the frogspawn is starting to make a bit of progress with nubs to tails appearing on the tiny blobs. Hopefully, I&#8217;ll be able to keep posting photos of these as they develop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"192\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?attachment_id=192\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L820&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1395069760&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;25.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0209\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?fit=474%2C356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-192\" alt=\"DSCN0209\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN0209.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got around in a reasonable time considering we had the children and we all had a grand walk. It is really nice to see things coming to life at this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 24 We had planned on having a walk elsewhere after going into the parade in Longford but events conspired otherwise. So we set off into the afternoon with two mildly grumpy children who weren&#8217;t thrilled with being dragged around the forest for a second time in three days. Anyway, as usual the histrionics evaporated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/span> <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":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,2],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paARl1-35","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}