{"id":753,"date":"2008-06-23T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:26:01","slug":"straight-out-of-the-field-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Straight out of the field guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/cheekyuppie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214889496650208930\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/cheekyuppie-198x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8220;<em>The ecstatic upland plover, hovering overhead, poured praises on something perfect: perhaps the eggs, perhaps the shadows, or perhaps the haze of pink phlox that lay on the prairie.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211;Aldo Leopold, <em>A Sand County Almanac<br \/><\/em><br \/>God I love it when birds do what they&#8217;re supposed to&#8230; and then pose for pix while at it!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d nearly missed this roadside Upland Sandpiper as we chased the tour bus along the prairie trail heading to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/arrowwood\/chaselake_nwr\/grasslands.html\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Chase Lake NWR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">, but a quick stop and then a very slow progression forward, all the while hoping the bird wouldn&#8217;t fly off, let me have my fill of pix hanging out the sunroof of the car like a crazed photographer. I got lots of nice pics, but this one is today&#8217;s favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Not a life bird for me, but I couldn&#8217;t have asked for any nicer looks at it. Can&#8217;t you just imagine it soaring high in the blue skies of a North Dakota spring, its long, drawn out song drifting down over a sunny meadow&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The ecstatic upland plover, hovering overhead, poured praises on something perfect: perhaps the eggs, perhaps the shadows, or perhaps the haze of pink phlox that lay on the prairie.&#8221; &#8211;Aldo Leopold, A Sand County AlmanacGod I love it when birds do what they&#8217;re supposed to&#8230; and then pose for pix while at it! \ud83d\ude09 We&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Straight out of the field guide<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}