{"id":36,"date":"2007-07-04T22:51:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T04:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/36\/birdhouse-your-vent\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T13:05:58","slug":"birdhouse-your-vent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/birdhouse-your-vent\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdhouse in Your Vent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View - Curtis removes a bird's nest from the dryer vent\" href=\"\/pictures\/176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/thumbs\/DryerVentBirdhouse.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis removes a bird's nest from the dryer vent\" width=\"59\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>Our clothes  dryer started taking a really long time to get things dry a couple of  weeks ago, so today I finally decided to check out the exterior vent.  I  was expecting to find a bunch of lint and junk, but I was surprised to  find a whole bird&#8217;s nest in one four-inch duct.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Fourth of July, so I&#8217;ve been reflecting on how our  country was founded on the principle of harboring the &#8220;huddled masses  yearning to breathe free&#8221;, but I decided to tell the bird family to &#8220;Hit  the road, Jack!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I started hauling scraps of straw, torn-up tarp, feathers and  plastic bag out of there, I was thinking, &#8220;I hope whatever bird made  this nest isn&#8217;t in there, planning to attack me when I stick my hand  in.&#8221;  I did get quite the surprise when a little bird jumped out of  there &#8212; I jumped back myself and fell off the ladder.  Sarah thought  the whole thing was pretty amusing.  I also found a little bit of egg  yolk on my shoe and on the ladder, so it appears I unintentionally  killed a pre-baby bird.  (Not any worse than the chicken eggs I ate for  breakfast yesterday though.)<\/p>\n<p>The photo above shows my triumphant pose at the top of the ladder  (and what I look like after not shaving since Sunday morning).<\/p>\n<p><em>My apologies to &#8220;They Might Be Giants&#8221; for the title of this  post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our clothes dryer started taking a really long time to get things dry a couple of weeks ago, so today I finally decided to check out the exterior vent. I was expecting to find a bunch of lint and junk, but I was surprised to find a whole bird&#8217;s nest in one four-inch duct. It&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/birdhouse-your-vent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birdhouse in Your Vent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stories","tag-birds-nest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}