{"id":10931,"date":"2014-08-03T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T02:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=10931"},"modified":"2014-08-03T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T02:02:12","slug":"odd-bird-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10931","title":{"rendered":"Odd Bird Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning as I came around the bend from I-90 to the end of i-87 I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=8&#038;cad=rja&#038;uact=8&#038;ved=0CEgQFjAH&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.allaboutbirds.org%2F2013%2F02%2F21%2Fhow-do-starling-flocks-create-those-mesmerizing-murmurations%2F&#038;ei=-ejeU-P2A8SnyASQ6ICgBg&#038;usg=AFQjCNGdvOGhlEHsZolWVaVKRhlOue-E-A&#038;sig2=vpKKT4PYnnZY7lkpp9DxzA&#038;bvm=bv.72197243,d.aWw\" title=\"How Do Starling Flocks Create Those Mesmerizing Murmurations?\" target=\"_blank\">murmuration<\/a> of starlings flying around. Love to see those, the swarm moving around through the air as one thing until as one thing, it lands somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>This bunch of birds though, rather than landing in the marshy edges or shrubbery, landed on the road in front of my car! As in, I had to slow down to almost nothing to avoid hitting them and give them a moment to recover their little birdy brains and move to the two sides of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Love to see those, the swarm moving around through the air as one thing until as one thing, it lands somewhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[144],"tags":[235,560,236],"class_list":["post-10931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-around-us","tag-birds","tag-life-around-us","tag-murmeration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-2Qj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10932,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}