{"id":2653,"date":"2014-06-29T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2014-06-29T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T16:41:17","slug":"its-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2014\/06\/29\/its-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a bird!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What in the world?!?!<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff4b33;line-height: 24px;font-size: 16px\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2660\" alt=\"4 blog what\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what1.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what1.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what1-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2656\" alt=\"4 blog what3\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what3.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what3.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bird!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2657\" alt=\"4 blog what4\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what4.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what4.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a plane!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2658\" alt=\"4 blog what5\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what5.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what5.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what5-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a stack of roofing sheaves!\u00a0 Probably quite a trick to balance, though motorcyclists out here push the limit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2655\" alt=\"blog moto\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto2.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto2.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking manioc to market<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2654\" alt=\"blog moto1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto11.jpg\" width=\"442\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto11.jpg 442w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/blog-moto11-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a>Putting as many on as possible! \u00a0Crazy! \u00a0Right after we took this, the last guy hopped off, it just couldn&#8217;t work, but they did go with 5 instead of 6!<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/06\/4-blog-what1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=2653&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the world?!?! \u00a0 It\u2019s a bird! 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