{"id":10057,"date":"2015-06-15T07:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10057"},"modified":"2015-06-15T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T14:37:56","slug":"what-good-is-the-green-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/what-good-is-the-green-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"What Good Is a Green Heron?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Green Heron 1 by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/6038264631\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/7\/6133\/6038264631_3183d5070d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Green Heron 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It enlivens our summertime marshes with its dark beauty and its comical calls, but the <b>green heron<\/b> &#8212; the 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/aba.org\/boy\/\">ABA Bird of the Year<\/a> &#8212; has also been put to more practical use.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amphilsoc.org\/exhibits\/nature\/brickell.htm\">John Brickell<\/a>, writing in his 1737\u00a0<em>Natural History of North Carolina<\/em>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Skin and Feathers calcin\u2019d, stop Bleeding. The Grease eases pain of the Gout, helps Deafness, clears the sight, and is excellent bait to catch Fish with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Economic ornithology at its finest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It enlivens our summertime marshes with its dark beauty and its comical calls, but the green heron &#8212; the 2015 ABA Bird of the Year &#8212; has also been put to more practical use. According to John Brickell, writing in his 1737\u00a0Natural History of North Carolina, The Skin and Feathers calcin\u2019d, stop Bleeding. The Grease &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/what-good-is-the-green-heron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Good Is a Green Heron?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[503,502,316,505,174,173,504,506,507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}