{"id":66,"date":"2012-04-23T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/2012\/04\/23\/countryside-frogs\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:56:00","slug":"countryside-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/2012\/countryside-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Countryside frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center\"><a style=\"clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em\" href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/24ba0-sammakot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/24ba0-sammakot.jpg?w=300\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was a warm summer evening in May. I&#8217;m standing on a porch of a friends country house North of Istanbul. She&#8217;s having a picnic party. Behind me is the house and behind that a crowd of 50 people singing <i>t\u00fcrk\u00fcs<\/i>, playing <i>baglamas<\/i>, eating salads, pies and <i>k\u00f6ftes<\/i> and skipping rope. On this side of the house you can only hear the frogs. It&#8217;s strange. As if I was in a different place alltogether.<\/p>\n<p>There must be some other creatures sounding out with the frogs. I spot the obvious dog. Somekind of insects maybe? Too bad I&#8217;m lousy with birds so I can&#8217;t recognize the ones on this recording. An owl? I try to count the frogs when they stop for awhile and then start again, there is at least four. But there must be more hidden in the undergrowth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the croaking:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-66-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/sammakot.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/sammakot.mp3\">https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/sammakot.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a warm summer evening in May. I&#8217;m standing on a porch of a friends country house North of Istanbul. She&#8217;s having a picnic party. Behind me is the house and behind that a crowd of 50 people singing t\u00fcrk\u00fcs, playing baglamas, eating salads, pies and k\u00f6ftes and skipping rope. On this side of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/2012\/countryside-frogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Countryside frogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6796,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-english","category-sesli-gunluk-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}