{"id":10474,"date":"2016-01-15T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:16:31","slug":"national-hat-day-of-all-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/national-hat-day-of-all-things\/","title":{"rendered":"National Hat Day, Of All Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of birds out there with caps and hoods and helmets, but precious few wear a simple straightforward hat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aradergalleries.com\/prints\/images\/56_Gould\/gh_petasophora_serrirostris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>white-vented violetear\u00a0<\/strong>is one. Today it is classified once again in the humdrum genus\u00a0<em>Colibri<\/em>, but for a while in the nineteenth century, it enjoyed the pleasing and mellifluous genus name\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/48588#page\/27\/mode\/1up\">Petasophora<\/a><\/em>, the &#8220;hat wearer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d1\/Colibri_serrirostris-White-vented_Violetear_%28Male%29.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hector Bottai, wikimedia commons<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Honestly, though: If you&#8217;d had that bird\u00a0lying on your desk, would the crown have been the plumage character you&#8217;d have chosen to commemorate in the name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of birds out there with caps and hoods and helmets, but precious few wear a simple straightforward hat. Brazil&#8217;s\u00a0white-vented violetear\u00a0is one. Today it is classified once again in the humdrum genus\u00a0Colibri, but for a while in the nineteenth century, it enjoyed the pleasing and mellifluous genus name\u00a0Petasophora, the &#8220;hat wearer.&#8221; Honestly, though: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/national-hat-day-of-all-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Hat Day, Of All Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474"}],"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=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}