{"id":8427,"date":"2014-03-26T03:24:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8427"},"modified":"2014-04-13T15:04:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T22:04:52","slug":"where-were-you-on-the-morning-of-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/where-were-you-on-the-morning-of-march-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Were You on the Morning of March 26?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 26, 1870, that is.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/ae\/Ridgway_Robert_1850-1929.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"567\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Wikimedia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the case of Robert Ridgway, we happen to know. The nineteen-year-old illustrator was in Washington, and he spent that morning in a visit to the city&#8217;s market, where he purchased fresh male specimens of the\u00a0<strong>Passenger Pigeon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The birds&#8217; irides, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/117494#page\/357\/mode\/1up\">he would later write<\/a>, were<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>scarlet or scarlet-vermilion; bare orbital space livid flesh color; legs and feet lake-red, or pinkish-red&#8230;. Now extinct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8429\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-06-18.03.07.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8429\" alt=\"All that's left.\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-06-18.03.07.png\" width=\"431\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-06-18.03.07.png 431w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-06-18.03.07-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>All that&#8217;s left.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 26, 1870, that is. In the case of Robert Ridgway, we happen to know. The nineteen-year-old illustrator was in Washington, and he spent that morning in a visit to the city&#8217;s market, where he purchased fresh male specimens of the\u00a0Passenger Pigeon. The birds&#8217; irides, he would later write, were scarlet or scarlet-vermilion; bare orbital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/where-were-you-on-the-morning-of-march-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where Were You on the Morning of March 26?&#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":[38,109],"tags":[110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427"}],"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=8427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8431,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427\/revisions\/8431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}