{"id":21476,"date":"2026-04-19T18:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=21476"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:44:18","slug":"hummingbirds-verbal-surgery-4-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=21476","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbirds! Verbal Surgery! 4.19.26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Confirmed an eye appointment for my Mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-smugmug wp-block-embed-smugmug\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Hummingbirds-Verbal-Surgery-41926\/i-KXJBCFT\/0\/MbQ892ZDmzMFNk8ZLPMBZ32sjsSgKpxfW9jPh3Cgc\/M\/IMG_5783%204-M.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Hummingbirds-Verbal-Surgery-41926\/i-KXJBCFT\/0\/NHwbG2MPXSC7vzx26pJKJ2t8Wg63HgK2Nzz54qJgG\/346x750\/IMG_5783%204-346x750.png\" alt=\"Screenshot\" width=\"346\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OYB!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-smugmug wp-block-embed-smugmug\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Hummingbirds-Verbal-Surgery-41926\/i-3nLGBGp\/0\/NTPFhWdzCkC258Xp7gT7Pk3nnZq6RLQxMFXtf9fnK\/M\/IMG_5784-M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Hummingbirds-Verbal-Surgery-41926\/i-3nLGBGp\/0\/LN2Z59RCrPVR4HwQ3KQ5sjJrXLLdChFHFcvFhztvQ\/563x750\/IMG_5784-563x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-smugmug wp-block-embed-smugmug\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Hummingbirds-Verbal-Surgery-41926\/i-qSZwxzc\/0\/LbrjCcG7QJNKDJfkrPPzk9d8JgWqnDpPwj6cPpJQM\/M\/IMG_5785%203-M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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OYB! Espa\u00f1ol! Cleaned and refilled my hummingbird feeders and hung them up outside. Way cooler today. Interesting. Went to Publix to pick up meds for J. I&#8217;ll come in third place this week. Went to Stone Mountain to record a new episode of Verbal Surgery called, &#8220;Name Game [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21477,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476\/revisions\/21477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}