{"id":13278,"date":"2015-12-16T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2015-12-16T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:20:07","slug":"topaz-is-practising-laying-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13278","title":{"rendered":"Topaz is practising laying an egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topaz has been very vocal for days now and has been having a twirl around in the nest boxes. This morning I thought she was actually going to lay her egg. She sat in the nest box for nearly two hours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13298\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SDC18117.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13298\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SDC18117.jpg\" alt=\"Topaz sat in the nest box\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SDC18117.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SDC18117-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Topaz sat in the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She then came out shouting and with excitement I went in to look in the nest box. No egg! Oh well, she is just practising. Topaz always did need a lot of practice and has always had a lot of false alarms. I am sure she will lay an egg soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topaz has been very vocal for days now and has been having a twirl around in the nest boxes. This morning I thought she was actually going to lay her egg. She sat in the nest box for nearly two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13278\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13300,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions\/13300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}