{"id":2338,"date":"2012-10-29T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T04:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2012-10-29T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T04:11:33","slug":"something-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"Something for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mae-Downton-Dinosaur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2340\" title=\"Mae Downton Dinosaur\" src=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mae-Downton-Dinosaur-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mae-Downton-Dinosaur-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mae-Downton-Dinosaur-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mae-Downton-Dinosaur.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This intriguing picture is of my daughter, Mae Martin, in dinosaur costume as a guest artiste in a sketch called Turkish Downton Abbey, created\u00a0by a British comedy troupe and coming soon to a YouTube screen near you. If you\u2019d like to see her latest performance on the BBC tv show, Russell Howard\u2019s Good News, here it is. Just click the screen below. Meanwhile, lonely for\u00a0her merry company, I\u2019m out on my deck, watching the edges of the megastorm kick into Toronto. The wind blew another tree down on our street this evening\u00a0but the rain-lashed paper wasps\u2019 nest high on my neighbour\u2019s maple survives, bobbing and swooping back and forth in the gale like a grey basketball, steadfast on its slender bough, seventy feet up in the howling darkness. Savvy animals, those wasps, but I imagine they are feeling a trifle seasick tonight. Serves the bastards right. They tormented us all summer long.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c-2KKHOXnY4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This intriguing picture is of my daughter, Mae Martin, in dinosaur costume as a guest artiste in a sketch called Turkish Downton Abbey, created\u00a0by a British comedy troupe and coming soon to a YouTube screen near you. If you\u2019d like to see her latest performance on the BBC tv show, Russell Howard\u2019s Good News, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[267,672,673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}