{"id":180,"date":"2008-12-20T20:08:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-12-20T20:08:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:08:05","slug":"more-snowbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"More snowbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hummingbirds aren&#8217;t the only birds that come to my deck. I also receive occasional* visits from at least three gorgeous, bright-blue birds. They look like this:<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:1648:l][thumb:1647:l]<\/p>\n<p>I think they&#8217;re Western scrub jays. Or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aphelocoma_californica\">Aphelocoma californica<\/a><\/strong> as they&#8217;re known in Wikipedia. In describing the appearance of these birds, the Wikipedia article (as retrieved on 12\/23\/08) refers to the birds&#8217; &#8220;grayish underparts.&#8221; (Bird bloomers?) I&#8217;ve never heard\/seen &#8220;underpants&#8221; used before to describe a bird. Too funny!<\/p>\n<p>*The frequency of the visits increases in direct proportion to the amount of nuts left on the garden table or balcony railing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hummingbirds aren&#8217;t the only birds that come to my deck. I also receive occasional* visits from at least three gorgeous, bright-blue birds. They look like this: [thumb:1648:l][thumb:1647:l] I think they&#8217;re Western scrub jays. Or Aphelocoma californica as they&#8217;re known in Wikipedia. In describing the appearance of these birds, the Wikipedia article (as retrieved on 12\/23\/08) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-garden","category-seasonal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}