{"id":5562,"date":"2022-05-01T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2024-09-22T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:57:55","slug":"the-real-holly-and-the-danger-noodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/the-real-holly-and-the-danger-noodle\/","title":{"rendered":"The REAL Holly and the Danger Noodle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I look forward to May! Every Sunday in May, my friend Marian Allen<\/a> turns me into a character\u2014yes, even more of a character than I really am!\u2014and my alter ego’s story unfolds on the planet Llannonn, where she\u2014er, we\u2014are Assistant Head Librarian in a Public Living Library.<\/p>\n

This year, May 1 happens to also be a Sunday, and Marian reminded me that 2022 is a bonus year\u2014five whole Sundays<\/em>! I’m excited.<\/p>\n

See\u00a0Holly and the Danger Noodle #StoryADayMay<\/a>! My reward, perhaps, for being calm enough to breathe, snap this photo, and post about it last week. I wrote:<\/p>\n

Stay alert while walking in the park! (Especially national, state, or local preserves.) I almost stepped on this copperhead yesterday.<\/div>\n
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I’m quite proud of myself. While I’m not afraid of non-venomous snakes, I can’t identify them quickly in the wild and my first impulse is to shriek, “Kill it, kill it, kill it!” while running like my tail feathers are on fire.<\/div>\n
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I was pretty sure those markings spelled “danger noodle.” But I just stepped back a step, grabbed my phone, snapped a pic, told myself to BREATHE, warned walkers coming up behind me, and the snake turned back to the woods.<\/div>\n
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No authors or wildlife were harmed in the making of this photo…<\/div>\n

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Now you see the real<\/em> Holly and the real “danger noodle” that inspired the wonderful story by Marian Allen – a much better one than might have been written, had I not noticed the copperhead and stepped on it, or had I panicked while taking it’s picture and faceplanted on the poor thing. I’d say it was all worth it, to have the experience immortalized on two<\/em> planets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d say it was all worth it, to have the experience immortalized on two planets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-photography"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 15:29:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5793,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}