{"id":1222,"date":"2006-10-14T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T05:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2006-10-25T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T07:17:03","slug":"mid-afternoon-bird-flight-amongst-the-clouds-okinawa-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Afternoon Bird Flight Amongst the Clouds &#8211; Okinawa 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bird enjoying the mid-afternoon breeze by ridin&#8217; the wave. Also, two of the annual hawks came by very briefly later in the afternoon.  Hopefully, I will be able to get some better shots this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26787067@N00\/269020895\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/120\/269020895_1979f8b5bb_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Mid-Afternoon Clouds - Okinawa 2006\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click on image to view large size)<\/p>\n<p>Now a thought on the latest wave to roll my way (something I was told about last night), coupons:<\/p>\n<p>1)  it doesn&#8217;t seem to be an equitable means of distributing funds&#8230;depending on who gets the coupons, the finances will go to &#8220;friends&#8221; thereby producing the possiblity of keeping funds in a loop<\/p>\n<p>2)  if a guarantee to protect against counterfeit coupons is arranged, this leaves several possible misuses<\/p>\n<p>    a) a disreputable person could distribute counterfeits within a loop thereby providing additional funds to &#8220;friends&#8221; and\/or self<\/p>\n<p>    b) a disreputable person could flood any given business with counterfeits thereby placing said business under suspicion of fraud<\/p>\n<p>    c) or a disreputable person could do both, thereby producing a total manipulation of the market<\/p>\n<p>3) if no guarantee against counterfits is arranged, it leaves a business wide open to loss of funds through counterfeits<\/p>\n<p>Even though intentions may be good, there are too many opportunities for misuse.<\/p>\n<p> I say NO to coupons&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bird enjoying the mid-afternoon breeze by ridin&#8217; the wave. Also, two of the annual hawks came by very briefly later in the afternoon. Hopefully, I will be able to get some better shots this year. (Click on image to view large size) Now a thought on the latest wave to roll my way (something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-50","category-bar-notes","category-nature-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}