{"id":135,"date":"2011-08-10T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:00:48","slug":"going-going-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Going, going, gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lastlook73011.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lastlook73011-300x185.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The photos I took on 30 July will likely be the last of the baby Piping Plovers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>; (<\/p>\n<p>All 4 babies and their dad were still at the beach on 4 August, but my camera battery was dead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>; (<\/p>\n<p>That evening, while we watched, 3 of them took a very serious-looking flight straight out over the ocean. It was the first prolonged flight I&#8217;d witnessed and it looked to me like they meant to head straight for the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>; )<\/p>\n<p>They came back, but I&#8217;ve heard since that dad and two of the babies have left for points south. 2 chicks were still around as of yesterday&#8230; I hope to get back for a couple last shots, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monmouthcountyparks.com\/page.aspx?Id=2535\">Seven President&#8217;s Park<\/a> is the only place in Monmouth County, besides Sandy Hook, that had Piping Plovers this season&#8230; and the season was a huge success for our pair!<\/p>\n<p>; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photos I took on 30 July will likely be the last of the baby Piping Plovers&#8230; ; ( All 4 babies and their dad were still at the beach on 4 August, but my camera battery was dead&#8230; ; ( That evening, while we watched, 3 of them took a very serious-looking flight straight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going, going, gone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}