{"id":5586,"date":"2017-06-05T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T23:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2017-06-05T19:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T23:45:56","slug":"herons-and-vultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/herons-and-vultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Herons and Vultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I saw a most interesting sight.<\/p>\n<p>Walking by the Grand River I spied a Great Blue Heron. I then realized there were four of them. As I was on a treed trail above the river I had a hard time getting a great shot. While I was looking five turkey vultures landed on a sandbar right by the herons. 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Walking by the Grand River I spied a Great Blue Heron. I then realized there were four of them. As I was on a treed trail above the river I had a hard time getting a great shot. While I was looking five turkey vultures &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/herons-and-vultures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Herons and Vultures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,15],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","category-photos","tag-birds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}