{"id":2676,"date":"2019-08-31T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2019-08-31T10:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:14:02","slug":"just-a-couple-of-mercs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2676","title":{"rendered":"Just a Couple of Mercs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This measly haul represents 4 hunts this week; one merc from Monday at my &#8220;bulk silver&#8221; site, now up to 20 silvers included that seated quarter, and a new site, a sort of out of the box field between where 2 old farmhouses were.<\/p>\n<p>2 hunts at the field produced the merc, a buff, and a handful of wheaties.\u00a0 Its always the sort of site you can get a big fish, tho.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/083019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2677\" title=\"083019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/083019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/083019.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/083019-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/083019-492x300.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone on a forum suggested that they no longer got excited about finding mercs.\u00a0 If its not a seated or reale, forget it.<\/p>\n<p>Me?\u00a0 Never!\u00a0 I love the experience of finding even a lowly rosie, and the hope, when you get &#8220;that sound&#8221;, it could always be something spectacular.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve gotta dig the mercs to get that big fish.<\/p>\n<p>As for the title, <em>Just a Couple of Days <\/em>by Tony Vigorito is an awesome book I just finished.\u00a0 Its fiction, for those who read science books, but it is not science fiction.\u00a0 It is also hilarious, which is rare in science books.\u00a0 It is hard to describe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This measly haul represents 4 hunts this week; one merc from Monday at my &#8220;bulk silver&#8221; site, now up to 20 silvers included that seated quarter, and a new site, a sort of out of the box field between where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}