{"id":6227,"date":"2014-07-01T04:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2014-06-30T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:38:34","slug":"bird-of-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/bird-of-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird of Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1898, Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s Rough Riders had their date with destiny on San Juan Hill.<\/p>\n<p>TR was not the only birder in Cuba that day. A year later, an English journalist stopped off at the American Museum to tell Frank Chapman his story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I noticed at San Juan a bird which seemed to be much alarmed by the firing. He hopped from the bushes to the lower branches of trees, and then, limb by limb, reached the tree tops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chapman was able to identify the bird &#8220;readily&#8221; from his interlocutor&#8217;s description as a <strong>Great Lizard Cuckoo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-8.27.58-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6228\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-03 at 8.27.58 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-8.27.58-PM.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-8.27.58-PM.png 256w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-8.27.58-PM-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder: Did Chapman ever get an answer to his question?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1898, Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s Rough Riders had their date with destiny on San Juan Hill. TR was not the only birder in Cuba that day. A year later, an English journalist stopped off at the American Museum to tell Frank Chapman his story: I noticed at San Juan a bird which seemed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/bird-of-battle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bird of Battle&#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":[38,1],"tags":[124,122,126,125,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227"}],"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=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}