{"id":19660,"date":"2018-07-10T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/?p=19660"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:35:56","slug":"all-things-considered-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/?p=19660","title":{"rendered":"All things considered&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19661\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P2200271-Edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P2200271-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P2200271-Edit.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P2200271-Edit-188x141.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P2200271-Edit-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine River &#8211; Northern Territory, Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last February, I went for a little boat trip down the Katherine River in far northern Australia. I was disappointed because no saltwater crocs were sighted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19663\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180220_113322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180220_113322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180220_113322.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180220_113322-188x139.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180220_113322-500x371.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This sign is as close as we came to a crocodile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fortunately, I obeyed the sign. Today, the internet exploded with news of a monster croc &#8211; as big as a car &#8211; as heavy as a grand piano &#8211; able to leap tall buildings&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19662\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bigcroc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bigcroc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bigcroc.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bigcroc-188x141.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bigcroc-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit &#8211; Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katherinetimes.com.au\/story\/5515865\/biggest-ever-katherine-croc-capture\/?cs=1459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Katherine Times.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved Australia. Every thing about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of you know that I hate committees and associated meetings. Today this shows up in my email<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Please add this to the agenda of the Grounds Committee under Grounds Report by Grounds Supervisor for discussion:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>*Knoll Garden Irrigation System and how it works.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>*Watering using a hose in the Knoll Garden (pros and cons)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And you actually expect me to spend a precious hour out of my limited remaining stores to listen to &#8220;Watering using a hose&#8230;&#8221;?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last February, I went for a little boat trip down the Katherine River in far northern Australia. I was disappointed because no saltwater crocs were sighted.&nbsp; Fortunately, I obeyed the sign. Today, the internet exploded with news of a monster croc &#8211; as big as a car &#8211; as heavy as a grand piano &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/?p=19660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All things considered&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-daybook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19664,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19660\/revisions\/19664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegbethany.org\/newblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}