{"id":2823,"date":"2023-01-25T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2023-01-20T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:42:22","slug":"year-of-the-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/25\/year-of-the-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I use a big word.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crepuscular<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the word for animals that are active at twilight. Like rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>When my oldest was little, she hated being confined in a stroller. So instead of saying we were going on an evening stroll, I would try to gin up interest by saying we were going on a rabbit hunt. And we&#8217;d head out into the dusk, looking for &#8212; and finding &#8212; the neighborhood rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese New Year &#8212; the Year of the Rabbit &#8212; started on Sunday. Why not celebrate our crepuscular friends by going on an evening rabbit hunt? You&#8217;ll have to look closely in the waning light, though, because if they sense you coming, they&#8217;ll stay perfectly still. <\/p>\n<p>Almost as still as statues.<br \/>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery28\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-4 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit2b.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit2b.jpg\" width=\"810\" height=\"817\" alt=\"Rabbit\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit2b.jpg 810w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit2b-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit2b-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit2b-768x775.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue2a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue2a.jpg\" width=\"321\" height=\"345\" alt=\"Rabbit Statue\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue2a.jpg 321w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue2a-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit1a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit1a.jpg\" width=\"738\" height=\"670\" alt=\"Rabbit\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit1a.jpg 738w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Rabbit1a-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue3.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" alt=\"Rabbit Statue\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue3.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue3-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RabbitStatue3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I use a big word. Crepuscular. That&#8217;s the word for animals that are active at twilight. Like rabbits. When my oldest was little, she hated being confined in a stroller. So instead of saying we were going &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/25\/year-of-the-rabbit\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,25,42],"tags":[29,12,26,9],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","category-winter","tag-holidays","tag-neighborhood","tag-walkabout-wednesday","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}