{"id":1165,"date":"2007-02-28T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:35:40","slug":"is-beauty-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Is beauty enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/ReTftfV5qdI\/AAAAAAAAAHY\/3UbfUQtsH9w\/s800-h\/IMG_1067+copy.jpg\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036396255907523026\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1067-copy-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em><\/a><em> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8220;Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8211;Stewart L. Udall<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I don&#8217;t know that this quote holds true for mute swans, but I do believe it to be true for most other things in the natural world. I think we&#8217;re more inclined to curiosity once some love and knowledge is gained, don&#8217;t you?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">For all their beauty, mute swans are maligned by many for their aggressiveness. In many places their numbers have increased such that they are edging out native waterfowl and destroying aquatic vegetation. They are known to drive away least terns, skimmers, and native swans like the tundra from roosting and feeding areas. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The more you know about these elegant birds, the harder it is to look upon them as anything but pests. Like many other introduced or invasive species, the mute swan thrives, perhaps because of its great beauty, despite our knowing it so well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.&#8221;&#8211;Stewart L. Udall I don&#8217;t know that this quote holds true for mute swans, but I do believe it to be true for most other things in the natural world. I think we&#8217;re more inclined to curiosity once some love and knowledge is gained, don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is beauty enough?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}