{"id":1051,"date":"2018-11-11T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2018-11-11T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:03:49","slug":"day9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/2018\/11\/day9\/","title":{"rendered":"Day #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting aspects about my work-in-progress is the amount of research that I&#8217;m doing; about Eastern cottontail rabbits, of course, but also about their predators. A main character in my animal adventure\/fantasy is a barred owl who develops an unlikely friendship with Nettie Rabbit. I&#8217;ve been fascinated by barred owls ever since my family and I discovered one living in a hollow tree in Fort Snelling State Park one Christmas Day a few years back. When we went\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">back in search of him (or her) the following Christmas, the owl was still there, high up in the very same tree!<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1054 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr_eb_barred_owl-1.jpg\" alt=\"barred owl\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr_eb_barred_owl-1.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr_eb_barred_owl-1-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr_eb_barred_owl-1-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Barred Owl,&#8221; John James Audubon, <em>The Birds of America<\/em>, Plate No. 46<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">This image is a screen shot of Plate No. 46 in my copy of <em>The Birds of America<\/em> by John James Audubon. The author notes that a barred owl is large with a length of almost two feet and a single distinguishing characteristic: the absence of &#8220;ear-tufts.&#8221; The barred owl&#8217;s voice is a series of loud, staccato hoots ending in an emphasized HOO-AW. And, speaking of voice \u2026 today I spent my limited writing time developing the fictional &#8220;voice&#8221; of the owl character as well as exploring his inner emotional life. Thus far today, I&#8217;ve only written 417 words, but the thing is, they were good ones. I may or may not write more this evening; if not, I&#8217;ll have some catching up to do this weekend. But for now, I&#8217;m signing off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">(Day #9 of National Novel Writing Month was cold, snowy, and windy\u2014I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m ready for our state&#8217;s longest season quite yet.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">#NaNoWriMo18<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting aspects about my work-in-progress is the amount of research that I&#8217;m doing; about Eastern cottontail rabbits, of course, but also about their predators. A main character in my animal adventure\/fantasy is a barred owl who develops an unlikely friendship with Nettie Rabbit. I&#8217;ve been fascinated by barred owls ever since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[461,462,460,422,437,463],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nanowrimo","tag-barred-owls","tag-fort-snelling-state-park","tag-john-james-audubon","tag-nanowrimo","tag-national-novel-writing-month","tag-predators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eileenbeha.com\/nanowrimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}