{"id":764,"date":"2008-06-12T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:26:20","slug":"faking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Faking it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210810750141973122\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery1-300x199.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">What&#8217;s that ahead in the road? That bird looks like it might be broken&#8230;<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210810650847128002\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery2-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Have you ever seen a killdeer do its distraction display? To a car speeding along a dirt road in the middle of Nowhere, North Dakota?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210810534334617778\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery3-300x199.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The abundant killdeer taught an early lesson in exploring the prairie: slow down&#8230; look around&#8230; tread gently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210810436566141666\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/killdeerfakery4-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">You never know what treasures you may find if you look closely enough.<\/span> <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>For you non-bird folks: Killdeer and some other birds perform distraction or broken-wing displays to lure predators away from their nest or chicks. The adult bird fans its tail and drags a droopy wing along the ground so that you or I or a fox will think it an easy meal to catch. Soon enough, once the young are out of danger or forgotten, the parent flies off thumbing its nose for having faked you out.  A great trick!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s that ahead in the road? That bird looks like it might be broken&#8230;Have you ever seen a killdeer do its distraction display? To a car speeding along a dirt road in the middle of Nowhere, North Dakota? \ud83d\ude09The abundant killdeer taught an early lesson in exploring the prairie: slow down&#8230; look around&#8230; tread gently&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faking it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}