{"id":247,"date":"2026-05-29T18:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:33:15","slug":"music-of-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Music of Frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"926\" src=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3051-scaled-e1780086593784-1024x926.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-256\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500091840858161;width:203px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3051-scaled-e1780086593784-1024x926.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3051-scaled-e1780086593784-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3051-scaled-e1780086593784-768x694.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3051-scaled-e1780086593784-1536x1388.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3051-scaled-e1780086593784-850x768.jpg 850w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3051-scaled-e1780086593784.jpg 1643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s late May. We&#8217;d been in drought conditions for some time when, last week, we finally had several days of soaking rain. I could hear my fig trees sigh with relief. During the day. At night, all I could hear is this (press play below). Some nights a clown and his horn will join in the chorus, but not tonight. Tonight, there was no irony, no comedy. Just a sublime symphony. I wish you were here; it never sounds half as good in a recording as it does in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Frog-Recording-5_25_26-sans-metronome.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s late May. We&#8217;d been in drought conditions for some time when, last week, we finally had several days of soaking rain. I could hear my fig trees sigh with relief. During the day. At night, all I could hear is this (press play below). Some nights a clown and his horn will join in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}