{"id":264,"date":"2010-07-09T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:05","slug":"blue-hydrangea-with-blurry-kingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Blue hydrangea with blurry kingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_3535.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_3535-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491725606045200114\" \/><\/a>As you can see, all this time away from the blog has not improved my bird photography skills one bit.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I love having kingbirds around; they&#8217;re among my favorite summer birds. A pair has nested in the neighborhood the past two years and I waste a lot of time just imagining explanations for their funny personality quirks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I <i>knew<\/i> their babies had fledged this past weekend based solely on the increased frenzy in their parent&#8217;s shrill, chattering cries.<\/p>\n<p>I was hopeful that there&#8217;d be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=449\">snapshot like last year&#8217;s<\/a>, but no.<\/p>\n<p>One of the parents, scaring up bugs in the hydrangea off the porch, was my best chance at a snapshot and I missed it.  Darn misbehaving camera.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, all this time away from the blog has not improved my bird photography skills one bit. \ud83d\ude09 I love having kingbirds around; they&#8217;re among my favorite summer birds. A pair has nested in the neighborhood the past two years and I waste a lot of time just imagining explanations for their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue hydrangea with blurry kingbird<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}