{"id":68,"date":"2006-06-16T21:23:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T02:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rreynoso.com\/blog\/archives\/68"},"modified":"2007-05-10T22:16:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T03:16:01","slug":"the-battle-of-dogwood-tree-or-robin%e2%80%99s-home-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/sweet-nothings\/the-battle-of-dogwood-tree-or-robin%e2%80%99s-home-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Dogwood Tree or Robin-Home Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">June 1863: General Robert E. Lee, upon receiving news that Federal forces were in Frederick (Maryland), ordered the Confederate Army to come down from Blue Ridge  Mountains to meet the Feds in battle. On June 30<sup>th<\/sup>, Lee&#8217;s recon forces discover that Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) is already occupied by Brigadier General John Buford&#8217;s cavalry, dismounted, frightened, resolved and entrenched. 143 years later the battle between the Robins and myself, like Gettysburg, happened completely by accident.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I have long known about the Robin nest in the Dogwood Tree on my front lawn. Whenever my mower passes by they get frantic, chirping pointedly yet incoherently. I have taken to alerting them of my mowing with soft words the night before doing any lawn work&#8211;even though they completely ignore me. Last night was no different, me whispering, &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be fine tomorrow, I need to get under there and cut that high grass.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 1863: General Robert E. Lee, upon receiving news that Federal forces were in Frederick (Maryland), ordered the Confederate Army to come down from Blue Ridge Mountains to meet the Feds in battle. On June 30th, Lee&#8217;s recon forces discover that Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) is already occupied by Brigadier General John Buford&#8217;s cavalry, dismounted, frightened, resolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-kids","category-sweet-nothings","category-the-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}