{"id":166,"date":"2026-05-07T01:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:13:44","slug":"spring-means-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Spring means eggs."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" style=\"width:448px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-850x1133.jpg 850w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2416-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And where there are eggs, there are snakes. This is one determined rat snake. And yet, the position of his head and tail suggests he tried to get into the coop, found it too difficult, and gave up. He was gone not long after I took this photo. If he had made it in and eaten a few mice, or a rat, he wouldn&#8217;t have been able to fit back through the chicken wire. At least not for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And where there are eggs, there are snakes. This is one determined rat snake. And yet, the position of his head and tail suggests he tried to get into the coop, found it too difficult, and gave up. He was gone not long after I took this photo. If he had made it in and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}