{"id":2873,"date":"2010-07-28T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/blessed-by-carolina-wrens\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T09:47:00","slug":"blessed-by-carolina-wrens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/blessed-by-carolina-wrens.html","title":{"rendered":"Blessed by Carolina Wrens"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/PHOTO\/LARGE\/JRW_040302_00445Z_S.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/PHOTO\/LARGE\/JRW_040302_00445Z_S.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-large\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 21px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-large\">A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!\u201d<\/span><\/span><br><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/proverbs\/27-14.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proverbs 27:14<\/a> (New Living Translation)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br><\/span><br><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">This post is for anyone who has awoken to \u2013 or more precisely, has been awoken by \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=869AQVOOKIo&amp;NR=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this sound<\/a>:<\/span><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=869AQVOOKIo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=869AQVOOKIo<\/a><br><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">For such a tiny bird, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Carolina_Wren\/sounds\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Carolina Wren is impressively loud<\/a>.<\/span><br><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br><\/span><br><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #001320;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">[Bonus points if they have ever made a nest and laid eggs in one of your pots with artificial flowers. While their cheerful loud greeting in the morning can be annoying, depending how close they come to your window, they certainly are models of determination. One year we kept \u201cevicting\u201d them only to see them starting the nest-building process once again at their earliest opportunity.]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3456063417657079035?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!\u201d \u2014 Proverbs 27:14 (New Living Translation) This post is for anyone who has awoken to \u2013 or more precisely, has been awoken by \u2013 this sound: For such a tiny bird, the Carolina Wren is impressively loud.[Bonus points if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blessed by Carolina Wrens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!&quot;-- Proverbs 27:14 (New Living Translation)This post is for anyone who has\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/blessed-by-carolina-wrens.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blessed by Carolina Wrens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!&quot;-- Proverbs 27:14 (New Living Translation)This post is for anyone who has\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/blessed-by-carolina-wrens.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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