{"id":34,"date":"2026-06-01T03:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:02:13","slug":"day-9-the-birds-are-taunting-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/day-9-the-birds-are-taunting-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9 &#8211; The Birds Are Taunting Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day 9 of my stay with Grandpa.  Everything is going well.\u00a0 Grandpa\u2019s really busy so I just hang out with Sis.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been chasing the birds, who are flying everywhere.\u00a0 I think they&#8217;re taunting us.  I wasn\u2019t able to catch any.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Irritated.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" style=\"width:122px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Irritated.png 501w, https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Irritated-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grandpa left for a long time in the morning, and when he got back he smelled like grass and like my house.\u00a0 \u00a0Like, was he there?\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t he take me?\u00a0 I wanna go home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Sad.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36\" style=\"width:116px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Sad.png 489w, https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Sad-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, when I first got here, I found some free food in the loud room.\u00a0 It was good!\u00a0 But then Grandma found me and was mad at me, and now I can\u2019t seem to get in the loud room again.\u00a0 But I can still smell something under the door!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Disappointed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" style=\"width:110px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Disappointed.png 308w, https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Disappointed-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time I think Grandpa is eating something at the table, I walk over and jump up on him to give some love, while I side-eye the tabletop to see what he\u2019s eating.\u00a0 But there\u2019s never anything there. \u00a0Hmph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Frustrated.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" style=\"width:109px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I miss my mums.\u00a0 Hope they\u2019re having fun in the sun!  Can&#8217;t wait to see them!  Be safe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Bliss.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\" style=\"width:111px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Bliss.png 486w, https:\/\/mallari.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dipper-Bliss-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 9 of my stay with Grandpa. Everything is going well.\u00a0 Grandpa\u2019s really busy so I just hang out with Sis.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been chasing the birds, who are flying everywhere.\u00a0 I think they&#8217;re taunting us. I wasn\u2019t able to catch any.\u00a0 Grandpa left for a long time in the morning, and when he got back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallari.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}