{"id":5899,"date":"2014-03-24T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2014-03-26T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T08:33:07","slug":"barely-a-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/barely-a-splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Barely a splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140324_175146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5894\" alt=\"20140324_175146\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140324_175146-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140324_175146-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140324_175146.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>All afternoon, I had been watching the rain radar with fingers crossed for some rain to break the long dry. \u00a0We had a couple of light <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/a-spot-of-rain\/\">showers<\/a> in December &#8211; which didn&#8217;t even register in the gauge &#8211; but have had no real rain for 4 months. \u00a0The rain barrel in the goat paddock has been empty for a couple of months, so we have had to fill it every couple of weeks and transport it back in the tractor bucket. \u00a0The barrel at the chook pen is almost empty too. \u00a0When the front arrived over the property, there was not even enough to wash the dust off the greenhouse. We have experienced the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?s=rain+shadow\">rain shadow<\/a> before, but it had looked as if we would get something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fingerscrossed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5906 alignleft\" alt=\"fingerscrossed\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fingerscrossed-277x300.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fingerscrossed-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fingerscrossed.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All afternoon, I had been watching the rain radar with fingers crossed for some rain to break the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140324_175146.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}